After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'

— Duncan Jones

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

— Seamus Heaney

Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

— Francisco Costa

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

— Richard Rogers

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

— Joseph Altuzarra

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

— Tom Robbins

The logic of Palladium architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

— Stephen Gardiner