Aesthetic Freedom Quotes

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don't try and tell me that only one look is beautiful.

While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

Lolitas value independence and beauty above all else.

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

I like things that sound like maybe they shouldn't belong.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.

This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets the theme but not the limits of our aesthetic.

It's interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without seeming pretentious. Because it's perceived as an inherently accessible form, it gives filmmakers some leeway.