Bell Hooks Quotes

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

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

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

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

Design is my biggest love. It consumes me!

Life and art are inseparable.

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

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

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

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Art is a sense of magic.