John Dewey Quotes

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

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.

I'm really into color. I love polka dots, rainbows, any pattern.

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

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

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

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.