Budd Hopkins Quotes

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.

Budd Hopkins

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• I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Environment
  • Aesthetic
  • Accused

• Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
  • Doing
  • Look

• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
  • Song
  • Past

• It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Want
  • Style
  • Aesthetic

• I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Art
  • College
  • Training

• Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Value
  • Inspiration
  • Changes

• I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Most

• Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • May
  • Age
  • Religious

• Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• If I were somebody who spent the majority of my time saying things that were harsh and difficult to hear, I would want my visual aesthetic to be something soft and feminine, warm and easy to be around.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Time
  • Aesthetic

• I do feel like the blogs that I follow share an aesthetic and draw a lot from '90s influences.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Aesthetic

• Dan Curry is the funniest guy in the world. I can sit in a room with him for hours, and he's just cracking me up constantly. And Kitao is the next Terry Gilliam. A lot of comedy directors are just comedic writers, but they don't have any sense of aesthetic or visual vocabulary.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Up
  • World
  • Guy

• 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
  • Learning
  • Unique
  • Aesthetic

• There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

  

  Bill Conti
  • Music
  • Aesthetic

• I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Aesthetic

• I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.

  

  Jaquelin T. Robertson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Hate

• Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Art
  • Financial
  • Changed

• Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.

  

  Matthew Ashford
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Worry

• I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.

  

  Marianne Elliott
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Vision

• We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Dance
  • Record
  • Rate

• My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.

  

  Budd Hopkins
  • Aesthetic
  • Paintings
  • Sculptures