What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? Franz Grillparzer
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it. Mason Cooley
‘Form follows profit’ is the aesthetic principle of our times. Richard Rogers
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 judgement is therewith defined. Friedrich Nietzsche
Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation. Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgements is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. Franz Grillparzer
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty’s sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty. Aldous Huxley