Aesthetic Choice Quotes

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

A photograph can look any way.

White paint is my marble.

We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.

I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

I don't think that people should be confined to any particular aesthetic.

Every act is a visual judgement.

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.

Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.