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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.
I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.
Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again.
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.
My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just need a blank slate when I come home.
If I'm seeing you, you're going to influence me. I'm sorry - I'm just that way. I'm a big sponge. You can't copyright an aesthetic.
Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
I make aesthetic movies which are grand and with some of the biggest stars. It's not fair to run them down. I don't make tacky films.
There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.
I didn't want to be a one-hit wonder. I really wanted to make albums that had a different aesthetic every album and a different sound.
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
I wanted to create art that fit the Pinterest interior aesthetic, because that is so of the internet age and my platform, my celebrity.
I want to be the Tory Burch of India - never once moving from my aesthetic, but offering a story and putting a print on whatever I can.
My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.
As artists, we have the luxury of experimenting with extra crazy things, but I feel like my aesthetic is very street-style and high-low.
I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.
I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.
A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think.
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
I feel a very important factor to our longevity is that, over the years, we have managed to create our own unique identity and aesthetics.
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.
In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as a language.
The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.
On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.
The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.
A Tagore surname signifies an association with aesthetics and all the best things of life. It's enriching both personally and professionally.
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
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.
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.
O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and equal.
The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.
A lot of my personality and my affinity for certain pieces of pop culture and art all stem from a sort of Japanese aesthetic and way of thinking.
It's time for the aesthetics of upwardly mobile feminist respectability to make room for the aesthetics of survival, particularly trans survival.
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
We believe that when prosperity comes to any country, people want to look and feel better. Hence the demand for aesthetics medicine would increase.
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."
In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.
My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.