Giles Gilbert Scott Quotes

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

I'm aware of other artists, but what I'm really most interested in is viewing individual pictures. I like dramatic pictures.

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.