Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY.

- Billy Collins

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

- Edward Dmytryk

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

- Eva Zeisel

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

- Ella Maillart

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

- Dennis Muren

I'm very proud of Soviet aesthetics.

- Dasha Zhukova

I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.

- Charlotte Ronson

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

- Clive Bell

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

- Bill Conti

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

- Beatrice Wood

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

- Alexa Chung

I'm an aesthetic empiricist. If you like something, it doesn't matter who made it. There really is no objective standard other than your own taste. You develop your own tastes, you find things that do or do not fit your tastes, and therefore are or are not 'good.' Whether they have been labeled as produced by the right person is another matter.

- Arthur Phillips

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

- Anthea Turner

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

- Ana Castillo

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

- Alan Parker

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

- Andres Serrano

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

- Alan Cumming

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

- A. S. Byatt

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

- Arne Jacobsen

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

- Anish Kapoor