Visual Pleasure Quotes

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

The landscape is one of the kinds that I think, at least this body of work is the least selfish of the stuff that I've done. It's all selfish. It is making images of things that I want to see, that turn me on, that make me happy, that satisfy me.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good to look at, and that's a beautiful thing.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

Whatever I design, it has to please my eye. If I go to work on an office block, I'll draw the office that I want to walk into. If it's a piece of crystal, it must feel the way I want it to feel in my hand. If it's women's wear, it must be something I'd like to see my wife dressed in.

I appreciate film and stuff that's visually pleasing.

I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For 'Antiviral,' for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image. It's all about scopophilia.

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.