Famous quotes containing the words aesthetic and/or ideal:
“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)
“The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way—which money could buy ... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.”
—Theodore Zeldin (b. 1923)