Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.” ― Susan Sontag I’m not crying because of you; you’re just a trigger. I’m crying because my heart hurts.” – Unknown The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.” ― T.J. Clark

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke The What Is My Aesthetic quiz is a set of 20 personality-related questions. The goal of the test is to reveal what fashion style suits you the most. How does it work? In so far as the mind sees things in the eternal aspect, it participates in eternity. — Baruch de SpinozaA taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life is an endless battle for self-love, a continuous journey of finding and improving yourself.” — Unknown People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven’t done anything to deserve it.” ― Ted Chiang The rule of thirds is a simple compositional guideline that suggests you position key elements a third of the way into the frame. More sunshine, more lemons, more sunsets, more bananas, more sunflowers, more yellow, more happiness.” — Unknown

List of Popular Aesthetic Styles [2021]

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche I don’t pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.” —Nayyirah Waheed The same rule is applicable when it comes to choosing your dress. You could let the media be in charge of your garderobe. Or you could “show ’em all the middle finger” and do what you want to. Again, which one makes more sense? The latter, for sure. Make sure key compositional elements come in odd-numbered groups, rather than even-numbered groups.