Aesthetic

Famous quotes containing the word aesthetic:

    Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
    Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)

    A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
    David Mamet (b. 1947)

    For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)