aesthetic creation Quotes

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible, three-dimensional object, your heart is anxiously following the process of your work. And the love involved in making it is conveyed to those for whom you made it.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.