Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. – Jerry Saltz
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
I’m not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it’s certainly not because of his politics. I just don’t like the aesthetic. – Andrew Breitbart
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
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. – Gaston Bachelard
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn’t really seem to need to have. – Rob McElhenney
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. – Richard Dawkins
I’m not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object. – Samuel R. Delany
I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic. – Stephen Bayley
