Aesthetic Presentation Quotes

Food is an excellent way to do very elegant worldbuilding - the kind that can make a fictional world seem real, like it extends way past the edges of the frame.

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

With food, you're the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability to knock out the senses. It can look fabulous, be beautifully presented and smell great and taste good as well.

I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

Obviously, I like very beautiful food, because I think as delicious as food has to taste, it also has to look very beautiful - the process of presentation is very important.

If you have bad hair and you bite your nails, nobody expects that you can't direct plays.