Quotes About Aesthete

#1. It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.

David Byrne

#2. Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.

Camille Paglia

#3. Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Raymond Loewy

#4. Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

Sebastian Horsley

#5. On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.

C.P. Cavafy

#6. You didn't take part, Benjamin?" Gunther asked, as he passed me a plate of cheese and cold meat.
"My brother doesn't play games," said Paul. "He's an aesthete. He sat by the window all afternoon with a funny look on his face: probably composing a tone poem.

Jonathan Coe

#7. To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.

Terry Teachout

#8. aesthete sometimes, Sonmi. Perhaps those deprived

David Mitchell

#9. Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Orson Welles

#10. [ ... ] the red-haired aesthete politician flashed a welcoming smile and extended a hand in greeting.

James Luceno

#11. I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

Billy Collins

#12. Not every visitor was enchanted. William Morris, the future designer and aesthete, then aged seventeen, was so appalled by what he saw as the exhibition's lack of taste and veneration of excess that he staggered from the building and was sick in the bushes.

Bill Bryson

#13. The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. Snow is bruised lilac in half-lite: such pure solace. You speak like an aesthete sometimes, Sonmi. Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively. So

David Mitchell

#15. The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

H.P. Lovecraft

#16. I was an aesthete rather than an athlete, and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#17. Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.

Ruta Sepetys

#18. There's nothing I wouldn't do for you.

Steph Nuss

#19. All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

George MacDonald

#20. Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.

Andre Tchaikowsky

#21. According to a new survey, 90% of men say their lover is also their best friend. Which is really kind of disturbing when you consider man's best friend is his dog.

Jay Leno

#22. I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

Elton John

#23. But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety."
"Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you ... and Niall ... " She faltered.
"Love you from a safe distance," he finished.
"Yes.

Melissa Marr

#24. Yes, my works ... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

Sigmar Polke

#25. Rigid traditions capture souls
prisons of spiritual thought
man's religion has captured a god
grown too small and very weak.

David W. Earle

#26. The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.

Ken Blanchard

#27. Love life's weariness leavens.

Henri Cazalis

#28. No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

George Eliot

#29. To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power - pride, arrogance, control. I am not the frozen snow queen but a flesh and blood woman with perhaps too loving a heart, one easily hurt.

Michelle Cliff