Aesthetic Judgments

Famous quotes containing the words aesthetic judgments, aesthetic and/or judgments:

“The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

“To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)