aesthetic quotes

  'Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.'

- Donald Barthelme
  Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural  Acts,'The Indian Uprising'.

It has been often said, even by proponents of those picturesknown inaestheticslang as Cubist and Abstract, that they have no subject matter. Such a statement is equivalent to saying that life has no subject matter.

- Stuart Davis
  'The Cube Root', in  Art News, vol.41,1 Feb.

Johnson's aesthetic judgements are almost invariably subtle, or solid, or bold; they have always some good quality to recommend themexcept one: theyare never right.

- (Giles) Lytton Strachey
  On SamuelJohnson. Books and Characters,'Lives of the Poets'.

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Decline and Fall, pt.3, ch.1.