Grimes Quotes

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Form follows beauty.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Only ugliness is obscene.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

I call architecture frozen music.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

I abhor mere prettiness.

I always saw candy as art.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.