43 Inspiring Aesthetic Quotes To See The Beauty Around You

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We all know that the world is a chaotic place. But some see the beauty in the chaos. They see the beauty in even things that others don’t notice. There are many ways to find beauty in everything. Many people think that the term ‘beauty’ is subjective, but it’s not. It is about finding meaning in every day and finding what lies beneath the surface. The aesthetic can be seen in anything – from nature to art, language music.

The world is full of mysteries that are waiting to be discovered and explored with your senses. The next time you see something that’s ugly or dirty, remember that you’re looking at a different aspect of the life-the rawer side of life; if you will-and, it may have some meaning for someone else or yourself. Here are some inspirational quotes that will help you see the beauty in everything and improve your mood.

43 Inspiring Aesthetic Quotes

1. “It’s hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics.” ― Marty Rubin

2. “Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it’s very important for the spirit and therefore the health.” ― Robert Bateman

3. “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” ― E. O. Wilson

4. “Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.” ― Richard O. Prum

5. “The line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn’t matter if it’s been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.” – Donna Tartt

6. “Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.” ― M.F. Moonzajer

7. “The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.” ― Theodor W. Adorno

8. “Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.” ― William Hazlitt

9. “Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.” ― Brian Sewell

10. “Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful.” ― Hiromu Arakawa

11. “Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.” – Jimenez Lai

12. “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.” – Lupita Nyong’o

13. “Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.” ― George Edward Woodberry

14. “Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.” ― Fred Ross

15. “Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.” ― Friedrich Schiller

16. “What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs.” ― Cindy McCormick Martinusen

17. “I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.” ― Clive Howard Bell

18. “Aesthetic considerations are a matter of luxury and indulgence rather than of necessity.” ― Unknown

19. “But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.” – Simon Van Booy

20. “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

21. “It’s just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.” – Yigal Azrouel

22. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren

23. “Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups, and down, but that’s its beauty.” – Amit Ray

24. “Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it’s very important for the spirit and therefore the health.” – Robert Bateman

25. “All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.” ― Susan Sontag

26. “To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.” – Arthur Conan Doyle

27. “Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment are permanent.” – Roger Scruton

28. “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” – Alfred North Whitehead

29. “Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.” ― Remy de Gourmont

30. “My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn’t change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.” ― Douglas Trumbull

31. “Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” ― Joseph Brodsky

32. “The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.” ― Murray Krieger

33. “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” – Steve Maraboli

34. “All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.” ― Walter Benjamin

35. “We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.” – Amber Heard

36. “Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.” – Barnett Newman

37. “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” ― Oscar Wilde

38. “People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.” – Thom Filicia

39. “Beauty is sometimes born of pain.”― Sheri L. Swift

40. “Aesthetics – rather than reason – shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. ‘Thinking in Numbers’ is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences – the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.” – Daniel Tammet

41. “The aesthetics aren’t merely a side note, they’re as important as anything else.”― Sylvain Neuvel

42. “In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.” ― Clarice Lispector

43. “Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.” ― Octavio Paz

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