Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.
In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.
Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
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.
He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.
In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.
The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
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