Aesthetic Awareness Quotes

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the heart, and they can see the whole stupidity of people killing living beings for their food. It is their sensitivity, their aesthetic awareness that makes them vegetarians.

Art makes you a better human being, and that reflects in society.

Americans are much easier to please than Canadians. The American taste is less critical. Canadians are more cultured, they are more aware of the arts than Americans.

At the heart of art is learning to see

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.

An aesthetically informed Congress might be able to make better laws.

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.

The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.

My mom told us that we should have good shoes, a good suit, and a watch, so I was running around at age 10 looking like a little old man. But somehow I grew to understand that a watch is a representation of myself, of my culture, taste, awareness and aesthetic.

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to draw, we teach her to see. When we teach a child to dance, we teach him about his body and about space, and when he acts on a stage, he learns about character and motivation. When we teach a child design, we reveal the geometry of the world. When we teach children about the folk and traditional arts and the great masterpieces of the world, we teach them to celebrate their roots and find their own place in history.

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.