Esthetically Quotes

#1. I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

Richard Brautigan

#2. Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

John Updike

#3. The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

Rudolf Arnheim

#4. I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

George Russell

#5. In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the second case, he esthetically enjoyed his personality.

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

Berenice Abbott

#7. Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level.

Brad Bird

#8. But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

William Shakespeare

#9. The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing threats too readily.

Daniel Smith

#10. Hers was a quiet, subtle warfare, but she had always been a warrior.

Lauren Groff

#11. It was a farewell. Not a good-bye, but a fare ... well. and he had the sense they would.

J.R. Ward

#12. so she pulled on all her puppet-strings and ignored how they pulled right back until they nearly ripped right out of her heart to leave it bleeding.

Cole McCade

#13. I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

Barry Mann

#14. But you lose the opportunity to share the good things when you do something bad.

Courtney Maum

#15. Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

Glenn Beck

#16. If all you got is "I don't want to be that" then sell insurance.

Matt Chandler