Aesthetics Quotes

"The portrait is a remarkable example of modern art. It certainly combines force and candour."

"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject. But then I shall require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermilion will be the darkest, dullest colours upon it, and beyond them there will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight the celestial eye."

"I would love to make beauty and strangeness synonymous"

"To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about"

"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns"

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth"

"We want as many different things in as many different fields to be beautiful as possible"

"I’m interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too."

"The highest form of art is the expression of pure thought."

"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian."

"To love beauty is to see light"

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

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

"I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it."

"Exuberance is beauty"