Definition of Aesthetic

Aesthetic Quotations

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

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Evelyn Waugh

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.
Spike Lee