Aesthetic Comparison Quotes

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Music is like film to me.

Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.