Aesthetic Appreciation Quotes

#1. It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

John Updike

#2. It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

C.S. Lewis

#3. A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a folk art or a style of music; and, as such, it is quite as worthy of study.

Michael Dummett

#4. To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

George Herbert Mead

#5. Ours is thus a realism of lush and leafy spaces rather than deserts, with science regularly revealing new thickets of canopy. Anyone is welcome to go on sharing Quine's aesthetic appreciation of deserts, but we think the facts now suggest that we must reconcile ourselves to life in the rainforest.

Anonymous

#6. I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.

Junior Seau

#7. No one is reading my diary, that's for sure.

Erin Duffy

#8. Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

Octavia E. Butler

#9. I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

Victor Salva

#10. Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

Martin Filler

#11. Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.

Billy Collins

#12. We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

Amber Heard

#13. It was strange to have his parents needing something from him. Something this big. In the past, they needed silence from him if he was making a racket. They needed him to apply himself. "I need you to be sensible, Tom." But not this need. Not the need to make everything right.

Melina Marchetta

#14. Knowledge enlivens the soul.

Hazrat Ali R.A

#15. If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity

Epicurus

#16. Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.

John Murray

#17. The space reminded me of the small hay-bale clubhouses and scrap-wood tree forts that my brothers and I had made as kids - high up spaces where you could see things differently, where you could get your bearings.

Dee Williams

#18. Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#19. The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.

Frederick Lenz

#20. I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.

Billy Connolly

#21. Truth is my God. I can only search Him through nonviolence and in on other way.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

Lawrence Weiner

#23. Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

C.S. Lewis

#24. There is rhythm in chaos - even within the cacophony of the mind.

Shaun M. Thomas

#25. The effortlessness of a performance for which great strength is needed is a spectacle of whose aesthetic beauty the East has an exceedingly sensitive and grateful appreciation.

Eugen Herrigel