118 Quotes About Aesthetic

  • Author Maggie Stiefvater
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    Greenmantle took a swig of the wine directly fromt he bottle - when he'd selected it from the kitchen, he hadd thought it would look more aesthetically pathetic and desperate than carrying a solitary glass, and it did.

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  • Author Cassandra Clare
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    The ride to Alicante had been like something out of a dream, or a cheesy romance novel. The two of them astride white stallions, galloping across the countryside, charging across emerald meadows and through a forest the color of flames. Isabelle's hair streamed behind her like a river of ink, and Simon had even managed not to fall off his horse--never a foregone conclusion.

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  • Author Cassandra Clare
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    As the sun dipped beneath the horizon, the clouds overhead blushed cotton-candy pink. Their reflections gleamed on the crystalline waters of Lake Lyn. The horses whinnied, the birds chirped, and Simon and Isabelle crunched their peanut brittle and popcorn. This, Simon thought, was the sound of happiness.

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  • Author El Torres
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    And honestly, the thing is... there is something special about those monuments. Despite how we might apply our own individual thoughts and interpretations to them... Even if they wrote books filled with precise explanations about how and why Gaudi did things the way he did... there would still be something pure in his work that will never change. Something no scholar could ever explain. Something those crimes could not erase. Something like... a spirit. Like a dream buried in time. A life.

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  • Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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    In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.

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  • Author Mary Bailey
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    When I first saw Natasha's work, I was amazed. I loved it and our similar aesthetic sensibility.

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  • Author Tom Bissell
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    I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

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