“I’m still not sure if I believe in the idea of a 'forever home,' but I’m currently enjoying the dreaming phase.”— Elsie Larson, abeautifulmess.com
“You know that you will never be able to recreate this satisfaction from the comfort of your home.”— Iman Hariri-Kia, manrepeller.com
“Some people loved it, while others hated it. Either way, it sparked major conversation amongst consumers and insiders alike.”— Kelsey Mulvey, apartmenttherapy.com
“We’re finally seeing a shift away from minimalism (not to mention millennial pink), both in fashion and in the world of interiors.”— Cait Munro, refinery29.com
“A lot of acting just has to do with an aesthetic look. We’re just props—it’s terrible, but it’s true.”— Chris Pratt, telegraph.co.uk
“Understanding aesthetics is difficult, it’s ultimately about very complex algorithms.”— Michael Spencer Jones, itsnicethat.com
“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”— Ben Shneiderman, amazon.com
“There are images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty.”— Sarah Manguso, amazon.com
“No matter how powerful the vibrator is, it would be a huge mistake to buy something you think looks scary, garish, or aesthetically unappealing.”— womenshealthmag, womenshealthmag.com
“It is as though beautiful things have been placed here and there throughout the world to serve as small wake-up calls to perception, spurring lapsed alertness back to its most acute level.”— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com
“The moment of perceiving something beautiful confers on the perceiver the gift of life.”— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com
“I felt on seeing her that desire to live which is reborn in us whenever we become conscious anew of beauty and of happiness.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“People are constantly putting up an umbrella that shelters them in a firmament of conventions and opinions. But poets make a slit in the umbrella, they tear open the firmament itself, to let in a bit of free and windy chaos and to frame in a sudden light a vision that appears through the tear. But t…”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it needs to be brought into relation.”— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com