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«Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation»
Author: Alfred Hamilton Barr
| About:
America and Americans,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
aesthetic, American Woman, appreciation, automobile, Eye of
«If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludic»
Author: Marie Louise De La Ramee
| Keywords:
aesthetic, cycling, extinguished, locomotion, slightest
«A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.»
Author: Roberto Burle Marx
| Keywords:
aesthetic, arabesque, disappearance, plastic, The Plant, volume
«And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.»
Author: Anne Rice
(Author)
| About:
Aesthetics,
Beauty
| Keywords:
aesthetic, belonged, Garden of, inevitability, savage, The Garden, vampire, vampires, verified, verifies, verifying
«Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
aesthetic, enjoyment, imposing, pattern, recognition
«A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, creators, divert, dramatic, enlighten, inform, mundane, Politics of, release
«I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
| Keywords:
aesthetic, almost all, repress, repressed, repressing, The Conclusion
«He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.»
Author: Henry James
| Keywords:
aesthetic, alien, autumn, brushes, dusky, Everything is Beautiful, solitary, wing
«I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors? eyes ? a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby?s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aesthetic, commensurate, compelled, contemplation, Continent, Dutch, enchanted, face to face, flowered, New World, pander, pandered, pandering, the Dutch, transitory, vanished, whispers
«For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
activity, aesthetic, any, art, certain, exist, For any, indispensable, intoxication, perception, physiological, precondition, sort, sorted, sorting, sort of, sort out
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