aesthetic form Quotes

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

High-class kitsch may well be "perfect" in its form and and composition: the academic painters were often masters of their craft. Thus, the accusation that a work of kitsch is based not on lack of for or aesthetic merit but on the presence of a particularly provocative emotional content. (The best art, by contrast, eschews emotional content altogether.)

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.

Art is nothing without form.

It's not possible to build a piece that stands successfully without talking about its shape. But if you talk too much, you lead people away from the music itself.

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.