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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. - E. O. Wilson

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

Nature, Spiritual, Satisfaction, Key

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Richard Courant

Mathematics, Mind, Perfection, Logic

My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.

Simple, Appreciate, Details, Classic

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Life, Technology, Knowledge, Talent

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

Vision, You, Buy

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

Art, Experience, Recognition, Enjoyment

I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.

Myself, Beautiful, Relationship, Time

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Beauty, Loved, Fashion, Always, Idea

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

Richard P. Feynman

Life, Flower, Colors, Interesting, See

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

Think, Sincerity, Realism, I Think, Sole

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Beautiful, Lips, Help, Curves, Dumb, Us

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Work, Beauty, Art, Ethics, Rich, Moral

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Ferdinand Porsche

Design, Without, Visual, Must, Explained

Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

Flowers, Nice, Done, Border, Matter

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Night, Sleep, You, Quality, Way, Through

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Personality, Understand, Artist, Learn

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Art, Architecture, Environment, Emotion

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

People, Ideas, Wonder, Intellectual, Big

When I listen to Amy Winehouse, I believe that her heart and soul is in the music, or if I listen to other British artists like Duffy or Estelle. The aesthetic of it is different, and it's my point of view. It's not anything formulaic.

Music, Heart, Soul, Believe, View, Like

I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.

Life, Style, Create, Based, Fashionable

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beautiful, Man, Truth, Ugly, Nothing, Us

My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.

Home, Time, Live, Mind, Space, Need

What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

Beautiful, Art, View, Energy, New, Old

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

William S. Burroughs

Art, Picture, Sometimes, Writing, Things

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

Good, Time, You, Bad, Emotion, Choice

In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of storytelling and literature.

Literature, Storytelling, Seen, Theory

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