Appreciation of Aesthetics Quotes

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

I like to admire. I'm a fan of beauty.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

People always get used to beauty though.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

There is also an awakening to beauty, because when you're really young you don't have that concept or opinion in place, so you make your own discoveries. It's different now with technology, and the constant bombardment of images.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.