Aesthetic Satisfaction Quotes

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

With 'Pity Party,' it's the first time seeing my vision come to life in front of my face. I'm super happy about it.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I don't make records to win awards. I make records to make records and hopefully make the records as good as they can be.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.