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500 Deep Aesthetic Quotes And Captions For Instagram (2023)

1. “More sunshine, more lemons, more sunsets, more bananas, more sunflowers, more yellow, more happiness. ” — Unknown


2. “High standards generally - about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else - far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.” ― Joseph Epstein


3. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” ~ Roy T. Bennett


4. “There’s no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.” – Kristoffer Rygg


5.    Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden


6. “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others. ” — Mandy Hale


7. “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgotten ― it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” ― Maya Angelou


8. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


9. “Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.” – Friedrich Schiller


10. “I’m Not Coddling Her Anymore”: After Years Of Walking On Eggshells Around Her Childless Sister, This Mother Stands Up For Her Son 


11. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss


12. “It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off—that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.” ― Walter Pater


13. “Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups, and down, but that’s its beauty.” – Amit Ray


14. “Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate, painted and gratuitous, hinting that the Creator is solely occupied with aesthetic considerations, and combines disparate objects simply because they look so well together, and that thing will admirably fill the role of a flower.” ― Hope Mirrlees


15. Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. -Marilyn Monroe


16. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison


17. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” ~ Anatole France


18. “In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.” – Clarice Lispector


19. “Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.” – Karim Rashid


20. “Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.” – Jack McDevitt


21. “Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.” ― Hiromu Arakawa


22. “For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” – Steve Jobs


23. “We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.” – Amber Heard


24. “We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.” – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki


25. “The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.” ― Murray Krieger


26. “Around the world, men and women who are blessed with beauty are like tower clocks: though they are few, they hardly escape people’s notice.” ― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu


27. “In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha.” ― Derek Thompson


28. “Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.” – Fred Ross


29. “Beauty exists merely in the mind which contemplates things; and each mind perceives a different beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.” ― David Hume


30. “Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.” ― Susan Sontag


31. “The answer to these questions is tied to the public's attitude about suicide. For many people, suicide is morally reprehensible. It's against their religion, or against their culture, or contrary to their personal values. Like other unpleasant subjects - incest, disease, discrimination - it's avoided.” ― John Bateson


32. “We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.” – Amber Heard


33. “It’s just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.” – Yigal Azrouel


34. “How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is.” ― Charles Baudelaire


35. “Resilient living is not an ode to dishwashing. Resilient repetitions are linked to the usage of aesthetically nourishing objects, to gratitude for the rhythms in nature, to steadily, gradually refining a skill, to the pleasure of slow creation—and the appreciation of slowly created objects—to creating momentous rituals with communities, friends, and family, and to finding a stimulating work-life balance and enjoying meaningful daily routines that allow for both efficiency and stillness. Resilient repetitions are nourishing because they have been consciously chosen by the individual.” 


36. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.” – Albert Einstein


37. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson


38. “What finite beings say about transcendence is the semblance of transcendence; but as Kant well knew, it is a necessary semblance. Hence the incomparable metaphysical relevance of the rescue of semblance, the object of esthetics.” ― Theodor W. Adorno


39.     “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. ” — Roy T. Bennett


40. “My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details. ” — Jessica Jung


41. “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” ~ Abraham Lincoln


42. “If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.” ― Franz Kafka


43.   More sunshine, more lemons, more sunsets, more bananas, more sunflowers, more yellow, more happiness


44. “We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal” ― Sebastião Salgado


45. Never say goodbye, because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting. — Peter Pan


46. “Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of nature and be grateful for being part of it. ” ― M. F. Moonzajer


47. “Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. ” — Shepard Fairey


48. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ” — Marcus Aurelius


49. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”


50. “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” ~ Elbert Hubbard


51. “Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and... It is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.” ― Louis de Bernières


52. “Aesthetics – rather than reason – shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. ‘Thinking in Numbers’ is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences – the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.” – Daniel Tammet


53. “Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.” – Shepard Fairey


54. “What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle.” ― Claude Calame


55. “Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which the aesthetic ideal finds its direct expression.” – Karl Marx.


56. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ” — Robert Breault


57. “God's pleasure the beauty creation possesses in his regard underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.” ― David Bentley Hart


58. “But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.” – Simon Van Booy


59. “I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.” – Sid Sriram


60. “I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.” ― Clive Bell


61. “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’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.” – Cornel West


62. “What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.” – Susan Griffin


63. “I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature’s performance.” – Iris van Herpen


64. “Your skin has a memory. In ten, twenty, thirty years from now, your skin will show the results of how it was treated today. So treat it kindly and with respect.” ― Jana Elston


65. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. -James Cameron


66. “What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count. ” — Albert Einstein


67. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud ‘I am lucky to be what I am.’” – Dr. Seuss


68. “If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.” – Asger Jorn


69. “It’s odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.” – Jerry Garcia


70. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”~ Albert Einstein


71. “Brown is the color of earth, wood, and stone. It represents stability, reliability, and a sense of comfort.” – Anonymous


72. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu


73. “In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.” – Baruch de Spinoza


74. “The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.” – Haruki Murakami


75. . . 3. Do not let people's compliments get to your head, and do not let people's criticism get to your heart.. . . 5. When ...


76. “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.” – Arthur Conan Doyle


77. “I’m always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.”– Stephen Shore


78. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha


79. “The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.” ― T.J. Clark


80. “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Bertrand Russell


81. “My mother always used to say: The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana.” – Rose


82. “When you’re talking about Tim Burton, you’re talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It’s like he’s got his own genre.” – Jackie Earle Haley


83. “There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep. ” — Edward Abbey


84. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli


85. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” ― Sophia Loren


86. “If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it’s trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.” ― John Daido Loori


87. “In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they do not involve anything other than perceived qualities.” ― Richard O. Prum


88. “Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. ” — Rabindranath Tagore Quotes


89. “Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.” – Remy de Gourmont


90. “Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not… All colors arouse specific associative ideas.” – Yves Klein


91. “Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” – Joseph Brodsky


92. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ~ Bob Marley


93. “Life is an endless battle for self-love, a continuous journey of finding and improving yourself. ” — Unknown


94. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller


95. “It’s better to have a hunger and appreciation for beauty than to be merely beautiful. In the end, life is richer that way. She may learn that.” ― Susan Vreeland


96. “If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.” ~ Jen Sincero


97. Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better. -Jim Rohn


98. “The line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.” ― Donna Tartt


99. In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln


100. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle


101. “The line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn’t matter if it’s been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.” – Donna Tartt


102. “In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.” ― Baruch de Spinoza


103. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis


104. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


105. “I didn’t want to admit it. It was easier to lie. Hide the hurt and emptiness to smile instead of cry.”


106. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston S. Churchill


107.     “Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated. ” — Paul Rand


108. If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. -Oprah Winfrey


109. “In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest, the beauty of nature fills our hearts with peace and joy.”


110. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. -Barack Obama


111. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens


112. “Pleading with those eyes, it's obvious what I'm meant to do. I embrace the beauty and kiss it deeply.” ― Patrick Bryant


113. “The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the puzzling world of the beautiful, elegant, ugly, and grotesque. Human beings ability to experience sublime pleasure emanates from a variety of sensory experiences and a person’s ability to make discriminatory observations and judgment in taste and sentiment.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster


114. “I do not trust easily. So when I tell you ‘I trust you’ please do not make me regret it.” – J. Cole


115.  “Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful. ― Hiromu Arakawa


116. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world is like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” — Stephen Chbosky.


117. “Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups, and down, but that’s its beauty.” – Amit Ray


118. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale.


119. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Christopher Columbus


120. “One day you will listen to all the songs you used to love and you will understand why you found them so beautiful.” – Brianna Weist


121. “Nothing’s perfect. The world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful.”― Hiromu Arakawa.


122. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt


123. “The historical division between the beautiful and the sublime indicates that an aesthetic experience is not necessarily linked to beauty, but can also be induced by the unpleasant, unbalanced, distorted, or even hideous.” ― Kristine H. Harper


124. “Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.” – Friedrich Schiller


125. “A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau


126. “Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment are permanent.” – Roger Scruton


127. “Do not let people’s compliments get to your head, and do not let people’s criticism get to your heart.”


128.  "Who am I to deserve such sights, to witness this splendor? Who am I to be the recipient of such excess? Thank you for trusting me with this color, this light. Thank you for reminding me, always, what lives behind the dark.  — Tyler Knott Gregson


129. “Full of deep insight,the nature gives me to write boldly without the temptation,that lurks behind the draperies of fame,and pause not I with wings of perception.” 


130. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. ” — Roy T. Bennett


131. “Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” ~ Anne Frank


132. “People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.” ― Douglas Wilson


133. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. ” — Helen Keller


134. “Fiction is as useful as truth, for giving us matter, upon which to exercise the judgment of value.” ― G.E. Moore


135.     “Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment are permanent. ”― Roger Scruton


136. “It seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure.” ― G.E. Moore


137. “I don’t pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.” – Nayyirah Waheed


138. “The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.” – Audrey Hepburn


139. . . “All the beautiful things are around you. ” “All I want is real. ”. . . “Be proud of your progress. ”. . . “Better things are on 


140. “The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.” – Murray Krieger


141. “And you doubt your potential. It’s like the sun doubting its power to burn everything it touches” – Sehajal.


142. “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” – Steve Maraboli


143.     Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object. — William Hazlitt


144. “The flower is strong in its beauty as it can be forgotten, set aside, or destroyed. The ambitious do not know beauty. The feeling of essence is beauty.” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti


145. “Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.” – Alice Walker


146. “All things exist in perfect duality with equal and opposite force. Your most daring dreams will strike fear in your heart in ways you’ve never known. Sometimes, this is not a sign to turn away but to keep walking.” – Brianna Weist


147. “Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.” – Clive Bell


148. “Smile because it confuses people. Smile because it’s easier than explaining what’s killing you inside. ” — The Joker


149. “There are so many things in life to make you happy. The sound of a child laughing, a rainbow, or a friend losing a ton of weight; and giving away their Lululemon pants that are too big for them now.”


150. People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. -Tony Robbins


151. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” – Roy T. Bennett


152.     “My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details. ”— Jessica Jung


153. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May


154. “If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson.” – Oscar Wilde


155. “Even a colour-sense is more important, in the development of the individual, than a sense of right and wrong. Aesthetics, in fact, are to Ethics in the sphere of conscious civilisation, what, in the sphere of the external world, sexual is to natural selection. Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.” – Oscar Wilde


156. “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’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.” ― Cornel West


157. “The greatest happiness you can have knows that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan.


158. “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” – Mandy Hale


159. “I think it's more accurate to think of aesthetics as a key ingredient in a recipe, as opposed to the icing on the cake.” ― Stephen P. Anderson


160. “Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.” – Alice Walker


161. “Any great art work … revives and re-adapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.” – Leonard Bernstein


162. If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. -Thomas J. Watson


163. “I Felt So Shaken Up”: Woman Leaves Family Trip After Eavesdropping On Husband’s Conversation With Mother-In-Law 


164. “Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.” – Jimenez Lai


165. “If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson.” – Oscar Wilde


166. “There’s no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.” – Kristoffer Rygg


167. “Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.” – Jack McDevitt


168.     Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. — Sophia Loren


169. “The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ” — William Ralph Inge


170. “Even a colour-sense is more important, in the development of the individual, than a sense of right and wrong. Aesthetics, in fact, are to Ethics in the sphere of conscious civilisation, what, in the sphere of the external world, sexual is to natural selection. Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.” – Oscar Wilde


171. “You are on the edge of the escarpment, confused whether to dive into a new chapter of life or immerse in the story of your past.” 


172. “Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful. ” ― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist


173.   “I don’t need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities. — Lupita Nyong’o


174. “Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe


175. “Henceforth, toys are chemical in substance and colour; their very material introduces one to a coenaethesis of use, not pleasure. These toys die in fact very quickly, and once dead, they have no posthumous life for the child.” ― Roland Barthes


176. “Like a warm hug, a soft sweater in a rich shade of brown can make everything feel better.” – Anonymous


177. “Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.” – William Hazlitt


178. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” ~ James Oppenheim


179. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson


180. “The philosophical attitudes of awe and wonder of the Ancient Greeks and the Enlightenment Philosophy of Kant have been inverted into the "modern" moods of terror and boredom.” ― Michael R.D. James


181. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou


182. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela


183. “In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. ” — Baruch de Spinoza


184. “Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason.” – Herbert Marcuse


185.     “I’m attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic – classic and effortless with an edge. ” — Haley Bennett


186. “Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.” ~ Barbara Baron


187. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein


188. “The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.” – Clairee Belcher (Olivia Dukakis)


189.  "All things exist in perfect duality with equal and opposite force. Your most daring dreams will strike fear in your heart in ways you've never known. Sometimes, this is not a sign to turn away but to keep walking.  — Brianna Weist


190. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. ” — Louisa May Alcott


191. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” – John Keats.


192. “All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.” – John Ruskin


193. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only life can do that. Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that. ” — Unknown


194. “The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do.” – Tahereh Mafi


195. “I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. 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.” ― Ariana Reines


196. “The ability to live a sensual lifestyle signals that an individual has become adept at overcoming the constraints of daily life and has entered into a privileged world where the key to entry is no longer the functional, but the aesthetic, the decadent, the passionate.” ― Lebo Grand


197. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” ~ Earl Nightingale


198. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln


199. “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.” – Murray Gell-Mann


200. “The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” – William Faulkner


201. “To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the imagination- is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking; but there has never been a time when the world would admit it.” ― John Van Dyke


202. “Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” – Ben Shneiderman


203.    Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. — Shepard Fairey


204. “I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.” – Sid Sriram.


205. “Hidden in the broom cupboard of Rose Cottage are two grand gates that lead to the loveliest little house you've ever seen. Nutmouse Hall. Shh, don't tell anyone... No one knows it's there...not even Arthur and Lucy who live in Rose Cottage.


206. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. -Henry Ford


207. “Social media is training us to compare our lives instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why every one is depressed. ” -Bill Murray


208. “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’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.” – Cornel West


209. “Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? That’s called purpose. You’re alive for a reason. Don’t give up. ” — Unknown


210.     “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction. ”— E. O. Wilson


211. “At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.”


212. “Stop waiting for Friday. for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.”


213. “At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women” ― August Strindberg


214. “If you continue to think the way you’ve always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got.” ~ Kevin Trudeau


215. “I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.” ― Misha Glouberman


216. “Aesthetics – rather than reason – shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. ‘Thinking in Numbers’ is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences – the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.” – Daniel Tammet


217. “Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.” – Octavio Paz


218. “Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of "character.” ― Susan Sontag


219. “All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.” – John Ruskin


220. “Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.” ― Roger Scruton


221. “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.” ― Patrick White


222. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller


223. “I don’t think I have a sense of fashion. But I do have an aesthetic, which I feel is an offshoot of me working in the design industry. For example, if I am mixing and matching prints on my sofas and cushion covers, I tend to do that with my wardrobe as well.” – Twinkle Khanna


224. “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction.” – E. O. Wilson


225. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ” -Marcel Proust


226. “Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.” – Jimenez Lai


227. “The starry sky began to shine,when assigned night spread with its ‘moon lamp’ for all of the wistful thoughts lay,below the tormented Earth’s nocturnal light and those splendid visions caught my pounding spirits.” 


228.     “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ” — Marcel Proust


229. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kubler


230. “I don’t think I have a sense of fashion. But I do have an aesthetic, which I feel is an offshoot of me working in the design industry. For example, if I am mixing and matching prints on my sofas and cushion covers, I tend to do that with my wardrobe as well.” – Twinkle Khanna


231. “The more people explore the world, the more they realise in every country there’s a different aesthetic. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” – Helena Christensen


232. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. -David Brinkley


233. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May


234. In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa


235. “Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.” – Dave Eggers


236.     “Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul. ”— Wassily Kandinsky


237. “Social media is training us to compare our lives instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why everyone is depressed. ” — Bill Murray


238. “Autumn comes early to the foot of the Slovenian Alps. Even before September, the abundant harvests are followed by a sudden poignant rain that lasts for days and brings down leaves in the lanes of the village. Now, in my fifties, I find myself wandering that direction every few years, reliving my first glimpse of the Slovenian countryside. 


239. “Full of deep insight,the nature gives me to write boldly without the temptation,that lurks behind the draperies of fame,and pause not I with wings of ...


240. “Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then, by all means, follow that path.” – Ellen DeGeneres


241. “At any given moment, you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end.” ~Christine Mason Miller


242. “We want people to represent us in politics—and in love and economics too. When people represent us fully, they are ourselves and are not ourselves. When an object is simultaneously the same as and different from the person concerned with it—or considering it—aesthetics is there.” ― Eli Siegel


243. “In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.” ― Kerry Greenwood


244. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” – John Keats


245.     “Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful. ” ― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist


246. “The aesthetics aren't merely a side note, they're as important as anything else.” ― Sylvain Neuvel


247. “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.” ― Murray Gell-Mann


248. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren


249. “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp


250. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


251. “In simple words, ‘Beauty’ is what gladdens the heart. Neither a symmetrical face nor a shapely body – If the sight of you generates happiness, you’re beautiful.” ― Adeel Ahmed Khan


252.     “In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. ”— Baruch de Spinoza


253. “The Law of Win/Win says, ‘Let’s not do it your way or my way; let’s do it the best way’.”  ~ Greg Anderson


254. “Please don’t lose another precious moment distracted by the thought of who you could have been. There are no past potentials, only what was and what became of it; only what is and what soon will be.” – Brianna Weist


255. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” ~ Albert Einstein


256. “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Anonymous


257. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain. ” — Vivian Greene


258. “Life is like a camera, focus on the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.” – Anonymous


259. “Show me what people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters. ” — Jack McDevitt


260. “Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.” ― William Hazlitt


261. “I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature’s performance.” – Iris van Herpen


262. “The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination, and brings eternal joy to the soul.” – Wyland


263. “The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.” ~ Matty Mullens


264. “Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.” – W. H. Auden


265. “The machine aesthetic bought something familiar to modern experience, but remote from architecture, to bear on modern architecture.” ― Robin Evans


266. “My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.” – Giorgio Armani


267. “What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs.” – Cindy McCormick Martinusen


268. “As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.” – Seamus Heaney


269. If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. -Gurbaksh Chahal


270. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks


271. “The starry sky began to shine, when assigned night spread with its ‘moon lamp’ for all of the wistful thoughts, lay below the tormented Earth’s nocturnal light and those splendid visions caught my pounding spirits.” ― Nithin Purple


272. “AITA? I Went On Vacation With My Friend And Her Family, They Kicked Me Out So I Got My Own Room And Stayed On” 


273. “The more people explore the world, the more they realise in every country there’s a different aesthetic. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” – Helena Christensen


274. “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” – Alfred North Whitehead


275. “More sunshine, more lemons, more sunsets, more bananas, more sunflowers, more yellow, more happiness.”


276. “The power of nature is such that it’s what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.” – Rick Rubin


277. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only life can do that. Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that.”


278. “I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.” – Clive Howard Bell


279. “We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” – Andre Berthiaume


280. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” ~ Stephen Covey


281. “Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.” ― Stewart Stafford


282. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. -Colin Powell


283. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker


284. “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.” – Albert Einstein


285. “Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment are permanent.” – Roger Scruton


286. “I hope you don't get stuck in the atrocities of your past. For others, it may just be a story but for people like us, it's the epitome of scars and a mountain of insurmountable obstacles.” 


287. “Pleading with those eyes, it’s obvious what I’m meant to do. I embrace the beauty and kiss it deeply.” – Patrick Bryant


288.  "In so far as the mind sees things in the eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.  — Baruch de Spinoza


289. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit. -Conrad Hilton


290. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss


291. “If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.” – Asger Jorn


292. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. ” -Stephen Chbosky


293. “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” – Steve Maraboli


294. “Back then, I was still just a fan of music. And to be a fan of music also meant to be a fan of cities, of places. Regionalism—and the creative scenes therein—played an essential role in the identification and contextualization of a sound or aesthetic.” – Carrie Brownstein


295. “In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgically fleshed... The aesthetic component of those instruments enhanced their function but was never central, never an independent, nonutilitarian thing.” ― Stanisław Lem


296. “The beauty of the subject often deceives us into thinking that someone is a great photographer.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana


297. “Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game. “— Octavio Paz


298. “The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.” – Kwame Dawes


299. “Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche


300. “In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” – Tom Robbins


301. “Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.” ― M.F. Moonzajer


302. “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.” – Arthur Conan Doyle


303. “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.” – Albert Einstein


304. “The great has terror for its basis... The beautiful is founded on mere positive pleasure...” ― Edmund Burke


305. “Loving someone you don’t see everyday is not a bad thing. It’s just proof that love is not in sight, but in the heart. ”


306. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. ” -Roy T. Bennett


307. “As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.” – Seamus Heaney


308. “Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.” ― Jack McDevitt


309. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller


310. “I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.” – Warren Ellis


311. “Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” – Joseph Brodsky


312. “We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.” – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki


313. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. -Mark Twain


314.     “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. ” — Stephen Chbosky


315. “Red is the color of the sun setting on the horizon, signaling the end of one day and the beginning of a new one.”


316. “You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.” 


317. . . Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but 


318. “We pay a small fortune for a variegated monstera whose epidermis is unevenly colored. However, we pay a small fortune for skin creams that promise to make our epidermis evenly colored.” ― Khang Kijarro Nguyen


319. “The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ” -William Ralph Inge


320. “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca


321. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kubler


322. “Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.” – Karim Rashid


323. “Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. feel that? That’s called purpose. You’re alive for a reason. Don’t give up.”


324. . . “Persistence: the ultimate key to success. ” “Embrace the struggle, for it is where you will find your strength


325. “Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke


326. “I don’t need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities. — Lupita Nyong’o


327. “Smile because it confuses people. Smile because it’s easier than explaining what’s killing you inside. ” -The Joker, The Dark Knight


328. “Be a reflection of what you would like to receive. If you want love, give love. If you want the truth, be truthful. 


329. “Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.” – Octavio Paz


330. “I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And ‘literally artist’ – poet and novelist – is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.”


331. “The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.” – Theodor W. Adorno


332. “With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.” ― Peter Weiss


333. “For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” – Steve Jobs


334. “People keep telling me ‘you are so nice I wonder how they would react if they see the devil inside me” – Jhope.


335. “Please don’t lose another precious moment distracted by the thought of who you could have been. There are no past potentials, only what was and what became of it; only what is and what soon will be.” — Brianna Weist


336. “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.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle


337. “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 judgment is therewith defined.” – Friedrich Nietzsche


338. “Be a reflection of what you would like to receive. If you want love, give love. If you want truth, be truthful. If you want respect, give respect. What you give out will always return. ”


339. “The aesthetics aren’t merely a side note, they’re as important as anything else.” – Sylvain Neuvel


340. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. -Aristotle


341. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. -Henry David Thoreau


342. “Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.” – Fred Ross


343. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Dr. Maya Angelou


344. “Red is a powerful color. It’s the color of warning signs and stops signs, but it’s also the color of passion and desire.”


345. “I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.” ― Kamand Kojouri


346. “I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that, then I realized I am somebody. ” — Unknown


347. “Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.” – Evelyn Waugh


348. “But neither art nor aesthetics is alone in being doomed to this melancholy destiny of living not beyond their means, but beyond their ends.” ― Jean Baudrillard


349. “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” – Alfred North Whitehead


350. “Cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice – the warm spices of fall that make everything feel cozy.” – Anonymous


351. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes


352. “In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.” ― Clarice Lispector


353. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -Abraham Lincoln


354.   Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only life can do that. Hate can not drive out hate; only love can do that


355. “Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus


356. “Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.” – M.F. Moonzajer


357. “We should worry again about the connection between play-starved education and eroded mechanisms for political debate, if worry can lead beyond deadlocks. Too often, academic essays pursue analysis and critique but stop short of speculation about remedies, as if intellectual work excluded an element of creativity. In fact, essays that remain risk-averse miss the potential of the genre to "assay," or try out, ideas.” ― Doris Sommer


358. “Two things to remember in life. Take care of your thoughts when you’re alone and your words when you’re with people.”


359.     “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness. ” —Christian Dior


360. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo


361. “Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of finesse.” – D.H. Lawrence


362. “What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.” – Susan Griffin


363. “The blue hour is the time of day when magic is possible. The sky is a deep blue, and the world is lit up with a soft glow.”


364. “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.” – Alice Walker


365. “Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.” – Evelyn Waugh


366. “Loving someone you don’t see every day is not a bad thing. It’s just proof that love is not in sight but in the heart. ” — Unknown


367. “What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs.” – Cindy McCormick Martinusen


368. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. -Mother Teresa


369. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stow


370. “Happening Good things may not make you positive. You have to be positive. And, when you’re positive, good things are bound to happen.”~ Invajy


371. “We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.” ― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki


372. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.”


373. “You can’t just give up on someone because the situation is not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They are great because both people care enough about the other person to make things work. ”


374. “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual satisfaction. ” — E. O. Wilson


375. “There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” ~ Edith Wharton


376. Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. feel that? That’s called purpose. You’re alive for a reason. Don’t give up


377.   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. — Arthur Conan Doyle


378. “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln


379. “I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.” – Clive Howard Bell


380. “Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition arises. The wild battle for success becomes more and more material. Small groups who have fought their way to the top of the chaotic world of art and picture-making entrench themselves in the territory they have won. The public, left far behind, looks on bewildered, loses interest and turns away.” ― Wassily Kandinsky


381. “Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” – Ben Shneiderman


382. “I don’t know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.”


383. “Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones... Successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.” ― Harold Bloom


384.     “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ” ― Alfred North Whitehead


385. “Be a voice, not an echo. ” — Albert Einstein · 2. “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual 


386.    Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand


387. “Girls have always been told that their value is tied to their appearance; their accomplishments are always magnified if they're pretty and diminished if they're not. Even worse, some girls get the message that they can get through life relying on just their looks, and then they never develop their minds. [...]


388. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.


389. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller


390. “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” ~ Serena Williams


391. “We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive lustre to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity... we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colours and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.” ― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki


392. “Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful.” – Hiromu Arakawa


393. “Aesthetic detachment will not stop the suffering of desire nor will the agonies of the boudoir cure the desire of suffering.” ― David Hosford


394.    Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz


395. “In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” ― Tom Robbins


396.  "One day you will listen to all the songs you used to love and you will understand why you found them so beautiful.  — Brianna Weist


397. “I don’t pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning. ” — Nayyirah Waheed


398. “The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.” ― Theodor W. Adorno


399. “The beauty of brown is in its simplicity – it is a color that is always in style and never goes out of fashion.” – Anonymous.


400. “In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” – Christopher Morley


401. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them, just find a new way to stand. ” — Oprah Winfrey


402. “It’s odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.” – Jerry Garcia


403.  "Two things to remember in life. Take care of your thoughts when you're alone and your words when you're with people


404. “Look at all the beauty in your life and be happy. ” 17. You are the artist of your own life. Don't hand the paintbrush to someone else


405. “Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.” – William Hazlitt


406. “Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.” – M.F. Moonzajer


407. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” ~ Stephanie Perkins


408. “I love art dealers….I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.” – Jerry Saltz


409. “There is an expression in Japanese that says that someone who makes things of poor quality is in fact worse than a thief because he doesn't make things that will last or provide true satisfaction. A thief at least redistributes the wealth of a society.” ― Andrew Juniper


410. “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” ― Alfred North Whitehead


411. “Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.” ― Harold Bloom


412. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ~ Maya Angelou 


413.  "I don't pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.  — Nayyirah Waheed


414. “I Was Baffled”: Argument Ensues After Friends Said Man Can’t Take His 5-Year-Old Daughter On Their Annual Fishing Trip 


415. “Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it’s a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets – it’s an incredible place to be.” – Sara Bareilles


416. I'm Not Here To Fail. Sorry To Disappoint. 2. Sometimes, “No” might make them angry but I will make you free. 3. Be Careful, it's raining 


417. “Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.” – Milan Kundera


418. “Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.” – Wassily Kandinsky


419. “Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it’s very important for the spirit and therefore the health.” – Robert Bateman


420. “According to this view, all that matters to art appreciation is beauty of form. The logical extreme of aestheticism turns out to be homicidal art.” ― John McAteer


421. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ” — Rabindranath Tagore


422.  "Do not let people's compliments get to your head, and do not let people's criticism get to your heart


423. “Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which the aesthetic ideal finds its direct expression.” – Karl Marx


424.  "Stop waiting for Friday. for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now


425. You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it. -Oprah Winfrey


426. “Any great art work … revives and re-adapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.” – Leonard Bernstein


427. “Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.” ― Wassily Kandinsky


428. “Autumn is a poem - while you fall for everything, you remember that there is something worth dying for.” ― Laura Chouette


429. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson.


430. “In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.” – Baruch de Spinoza


431. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” ~ Oprah Winfrey


432. “My aesthetic is pretty classic. I like to keep things simple but appreciate the details.” – Jessica Jung


433. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. -Steve Jobs


434. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ” — Sophia Loren


435. “I don’t need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.” – Lupita Nyong’o


436. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ” — Marcel Proust


437. “Who am I to deserve such sights, to witness this splendor? Who am I to be the recipient of such excess? Thank you for trusting me with this color, this light. Thank you for reminding me, always, what lives behind the dark.” – Tyler Knott Gregson


438. “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 judgment is therewith defined.” – Friedrich Nietzsche


439. “Had you asked me then, I would have told you it was aesthetic, that I wished to understand death in stages. That the death of an animal yielded such pleasure and experience to me that I had only begun to understand it, and wished to save the experience of human death for my mature understanding. But it was moral. Because all aesthetic decisions are moral, really.” ― Anne Rice


440. “Never say goodbye, because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting. ” — Peter Pan


441. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson


442. “What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs. ” ― Cindy McCormick Martinusen


443. “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them, just find a new way to stand. ” – Oprah Winfrey


444. “People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I’m able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn’t. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone’s flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths.” – Ashly Lorenzana


445. “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ” ― Alfred North Whitehead


446. “If you’ve ever suffered the accusations of people who objectified you as an emblem of darkness, it wasn’t your fault. If you’ve ever been haunted by the opinions of your friends, it wasn’t your fault. If they’ve ever assumed the worst of you, it wasn’t your fault. If you’ve ever been judged by your own parents, it wasn’t your fault. If you’ve ever been treated as an outcast, it wasn’t your fault. If you’ve ever made a decision based on an opinion, it wasn’t your fault. If you’ve ever been labeled, it wasn’t your fault. If you’ve ever been stuck in the middle of a love triangle, it wasn’t your fault. If you’ve ever been heartbroken, it wasn’t your fault. If you’ve ever cried yourself to sleep, it wasn’t your fault. 


447. “I'd discovered that the range of beauty in breasts is wide; while one should never lightly say that a pair is ugly, one can easily say that a pair of breasts is beautiful. Hedgehogs are beautiful sometimes; so are baby pigs.” ― Mo Yan


448. “The ideal of “working exactly” is also inherent in the historical disciplines. Art historians pursue it, above all, in order to avoid the baleful contact with aesthetics; and often exert themselves merely to say what happened after what– and nothing more than that.” ― Heinrich Wölfflin


449. “It does not matter how strong your vocabulary is, It’s all vain if your words can’t make happy anyone.” ~ Invajy


450. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell


451.   Show me what people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters. — Jack McDevitt


452. “I don’t need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.” – Lupita Nyong’o


453. “Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful.” – Hiromu Arakawa


454. “Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” ― Joseph Brodsky


455. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Joshua J. Marine


456. “I love art dealers….I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.” – Jerry Saltz


457. “Fashion, for me, is anything that’s aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It’s something that I appreciate and really like.” – St. Vincent


458.     “Happiness is more than doing fun things. It’s about doing meaningful things. ” — Maxime Lagace


459. “I’m still learning how to go back and reread my life chapters without feeling like I want to set all my pages on fire,” E.V Rogina.


460. “People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven't done anything to deserve it.” ― Ted Chiang


461. “It’s just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.” – Yigal Azrouel


462. “Do You Really Want That On Your Body Forever?”: 30 Of The Worst Tattoos Shared On This Online Group 


463. “But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.” – Simon Van Booy


464. “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” – Paulo Coelho


465. “The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” – Audrey Hepburn.


466. “The aesthetics aren’t merely a side note, they’re as important as anything else.” – Sylvain Neuvel


467. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” – Edgar Allan Poe


468. “A six-week trip to China in 1973 convinced me—if I needed convincing—that the autonomy of the aesthetic is something to be protected, and cherished, as indispensable nourishment to intelligence. But a decade-long residence in the 1960s, with its inexorable conversion of moral and political radicalisms into “style,” has convinced me of the perils of over- generalizing the aesthetic view of the world.” ― Susan Sontag


469. “It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.” ~ Francis Bacon


470.  "Please don't lose another precious moment distracted by the thought of who you could have been. There are no past potentials, only what was and what became of it; only what is and what soon will be.  — Brianna Weist


471. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela


472. “Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind.” – Tae Yun Kim


473. “Life teaches you a new lesson every day, if you are attentive enough in the class of life.” ~ Invajy


474. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway


475. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust


476. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” – Stephen Chbosky


477. “True self-care is not bath salts and chocolate cake. It’s making a choice to build a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Brianna Wiest.


478. “The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.” – Murray Krieger


479. “You don’t need to reveal everything inside of you for the people around you – they like to judge, and I’m happier when they don’t.”


480. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. ” — Stephen Chbosky


481. “The color of chocolate, the warmth of a fireplace, and the coziness of a cozy blanket – all the things that make fall so sweet.” – Anonymous


482. “The power of nature is such that it’s what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.” – Rick Rubin


483. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”~ Swami Vivekananda


484. “Never say goodbye, because saying goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting.” – Peter Pan


485. “When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does your self-esteem plummet? Of course not. On the contrary, you feel wonder and admiration; you're inspired that such exceptional individuals exist. So why can't we feels the same way about beauty?” ― Ted Chiang


486. Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you. -Zig Ziglar


487. “I’m always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.” – Stephen Shore


488. “Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” – Paul Rand


489. “Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.” – Remy de Gourmont


490. “I think my show was more beautiful. Like, it would have made for prettier pictures on Insta. But now, we're gonna have way better memes.” ― Carlos Hernandez


491. “Japanese aesthetics (in contrast to Western aesthetics) is more concerned with process than with product, with the actual construction of a self than with self-expression.” ― Donald Ritchie


492. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” – Edgar Allan Poe


493. “Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.” – Beyoncé


494. “There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.” ― Amit Kalantri


495. “In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” – Tom Robbins


496. “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain, children, all our lives.” – Albert Einstein


497. “Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason.” – Herbert Marcuse


498. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. ” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes


499. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ” — Abraham Lincoln


500. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank


501. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~Dr. Seuss


502. “The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.” – Kwame Dawes


503. “What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.” ― Susan Sontag


504. “No one wants to know what you are going through, but they want you to know how they feel” – Jimin.


505. “Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.” – Milan Kundera


506. “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

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