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Letter "A" » aesthetic
«Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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Nature
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aesthetic, cognitive, holds, intellectual, satisfaction
«Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.»
«With 'multimedia' the profound ethical and aesthetic challenge comes from the burden of responsibility that lies with the individual once the constraints on communications are so radically eased if not eliminated.»
Author: Kenneth Dyson
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aesthetic, constraints, eased, eliminated, ethical, multimedia, radically
«We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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America and Americans
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aesthetic, deprave, depraved, depraves, monasteries, monastery, protective, sinkhole, venality
«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»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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aesthetic, although, civilized, potentially, preferences, preserves, shocked
«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.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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aesthetic, aesthetics, defined, degenerate, degenerated, degenerates, degenerating, domain, domains, immediately, naivete, rests, therewith
«Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is the world justified.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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aesthetic, justified, justifying, phenomenon
«Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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aesthetic, appeal, appreciate, artist, art critic, critic, employing, employs, forms, manner, method, modes, our critics, painter, painting, personality, poet, pupil, technique, The Art of Reasoning, The Great, The Technique, the Techniques
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