Short Aesthetics Quotes & Sayings

Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or perceptual experience, are modes of exploration of the world. Aesthetic pleasures are like this. Aesthetic pleasures are contemplative - they involve studying an object OUTSIDE of the self, to which one is GIVING something (namely, attention and all that flows from it), and not TAKING, as in the pleasure that comes from drugs and drinks. Hence such pleasures are not addictive - there is no pathway to reward that can be short-circuited here, and a serotonin injection is not a cheap way of obtaining the experience of PARISFAL or THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. — Roger Scruton

Honestly, all crows are not ravens — Munia Khan

Thought leadership is by nature evolutionary, in that it must always be part of an ever-evolving flow. — Pearl Zhu

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own. — Benjamin Franklin

I brush my teeth with a leg of fried chicken, and gravy is my toothpaste. — Jarod Kintz

I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly. — Donald O'Connor

THE MISCONCEPTION: After you learn something new, you remember how you were once ignorant or wrong. THE TRUTH: You often look back on the things you've just learned and assume you knew them or believed them all along. — David McRaney

The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him. — Mary Balogh

To think," Borges writes, "is to forget. — Joshua Foer

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene. — Roger Zelazny