110 Aesthetic Quotes for Deep Instagram Captions

There are deeper meanings than what we see on the surface, and these lovely aesthetic quotes will make you look past only what your eyes can see.

Aesthetics appeal to our eyes so magnificently that we simply cannot turn away.

When it comes to aesthetics, people often only tie it to art.

However, these aesthetic quotes will help you see the beauty around you and in unexpected places.

Why are aesthetics so important?

While it might not be something you actively think about throughout the day, aesthetics play a significant role in the world and how we perceive it.

It is all around you.

It’s in mathematics and physics.

Including even the painful places of your life.

And in the imperfections of those that surround you.

Learning to appreciate the beauty around you can help brighten your entire world.

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Aesthetic Quotes for Deep Instagram Captions

1. “Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.” – Barnett Newman

2. “The aesthetics aren’t merely a side note, they’re as important as anything else.”― Sylvain Neuvel

3. “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”― Oscar Wilde

4. “Beauty is sometimes born of pain.”― Sheri L. Swift

5. “The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.” ― Theodor W. Adorno

6. “Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.” – Jimenez Lai

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7. “I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.” – Warren Ellis

8. “Even a colour-sense is more important, in the development of the individual, than a sense of right and wrong. Aesthetics, in fact, are to Ethics in the sphere of conscious civilisation, what, in the sphere of the external world, sexual is to natural selection.”― Oscar Wilde

9. “Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.” – Cornel West

10. “Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” – Ben Shneiderman

11. “Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.” – Clive Bell

12. “Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

13. “What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind.” ― Cindy McCormick Martinusen

14. “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, or I hate.” – Pablo Picasso

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15. “Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful.” ― Hiromu Arakawa

16. “I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.” – Lupita Nyong’o

17. “It’s just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.” – Yigal Azrouel

18. “Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.” ― William Hazlitt

19. “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection.” – Steve Maraboli

20. “It just means that I’m able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me, and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn’t. Love is imperfect.” – Ashly Lorenzana

21. “Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups, and down, but that’s its beauty.” – Amit Ray

22. “Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.” – Simon Van Booy

23. “We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.” – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

24. “Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment are permanent.” – Roger Scruton

25. “The line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn’t matter if it’s been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.” – Donna Tartt

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26. “Any great art work … revives and re-adapts 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

27. “Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.” ― Richard Prum

28. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren

29. “People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.” – Thom Filicia

30. “My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.” – Giorgio Armani

31. “The more people explore the world, the more they realise in every country there’s a different aesthetic. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” – Helena Christensen

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32. “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” – Alfred North Whitehead

33. “To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.” – Arthur Conan Doyle

34. “Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.” – Dave Eggers

35. “If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson.” – Oscar Wilde

36. “We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.” – Amber Heard

37. “Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.” – Karim Rashid

38. “I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature’s performance.” – Iris van Herpen

39. “I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.” – Kalle Lasn

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40. “Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it’s very important for the spirit and therefore the health.” – Robert Bateman

41. “Aesthetics – rather than reason – shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. ‘Thinking in Numbers’ is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences – the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.” – Daniel Tammet

42. “Regionalism—and the creative scenes therein—played an essential role in the identification and contextualization of a sound or aesthetic.” – Carrie Brownstein

43. “What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.” – Murray Gell-Mann

44. “Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.” – Octavio Paz

45. “Aesthetic sense is the twin of one’s instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” ― Joseph Brodsky

46. “It’s hard to combine a simple life with a love of aesthetics.” ― Marty Rubin

47. “Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it’s a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets – it’s an incredible place to be.” – Sara Bareilles

48. “I became aesthetically obsessed with language. And ‘literally artist’ – poet and novelist – is a calling. You are called to it the way preachers are called to preaching the gospel.” – Unknown

49. “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.” – Albert Einstein

50. “Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people.” – Shepard Fairey

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51. “An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.” —Kazuo Ishiguro

52. “Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.” —Remy de Gourmont

53. “All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.” —Susan Sontag

54. “The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine.” —Murray Krieger

55. “I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.” —Miuccia Prada

56. “If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.” —Asger Jorn

57. “Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.” —Fred Ross

58. “Aesthetic considerations are a matter of luxury and indulgence rather than of necessity.” —Unknown

59. “I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.” —Clive Howard Bell

60. “Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.” —M.F. Moonzajer

Thoughtful aesthetic quotes

61. “I do not trust easily. So when I tell you ‘I trust you’ please do not make me regret it.” – J. Cole

62. “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” – Amy Bloom

63. “Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.”― Honoré de Balzac

64. “You may be one person to the world but you may also be the world to one person.” – Audrey Hepburn

65. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank

66. “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach

67. “I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.” – Unknown

68. “Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.” – Alice Walker

69. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius

70. “This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou

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71. “In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.” – Baruch de Spinoza

72. “All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.” – Walter Benjamin

73. “In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.” – Clarice Lispector

74. “Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.” – Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

75. “There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.” – Raheel Farooq

76. “Everything good is good because of the love it contains.” – John K. Brown

77. “Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.” – James Elkins

78. “Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.” – Jack McDevitt

79. “Bread cannot feed the addicts of beauty.” – Raheel Farooq

80. “Pleading with those eyes, it’s obvious what I’m meant to do. I embrace the beauty and kiss it deeply.” – Patrick Bryant

Inspirational Aesthetic Quotes For Your Aesthetic Enjoyment

81. “The power of nature is such that it’s what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.” — Rick Rubin

82. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” — Elisabeth Kubler

83. “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” — Edgar Allan Poe

84. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller

85. “Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.” — George W. Russell

86. “For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” — Steve Jobs

87. “It’s odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.” — Jerry Garcia

88. “Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.” — Alice Walker

89. “In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” — Tom Robbins

90. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” — Louisa May

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91. “All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.” — John Ruskin

92. “I don’t think I have a sense of fashion. But I do have an aesthetic, which I feel is an offshoot of me working in the design industry. For example, if I am mixing and matching prints on my sofas and cushion covers, I tend to do that with my wardrobe as well.” — Twinkle Khanna

93. “Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.” – George Edward

94. “A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.” — Beatrice Wood.

95. “I love art dealers….I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.” — Jerry Saltz

96. “As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.” — Seamus Heaney

97. “I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.” — Sid Sriram

98. “Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which the aesthetic ideal finds its direct expression.” — Karl Marx

99. “When you’re talking about Tim Burton, you’re talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It’s like he’s got his own genre.” — Jackie Earle Haley

100. “Fashion, for me, is anything that’s aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It’s something that I appreciate and really like.” — St. Vincent

More Aesthetic Quotes And Sayings

101. “Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason.” — Herbert Marcuse

102. “Light has an evident, functional, and aesthetic impact on our lives.” — Olafur Eliasson

103. “The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.” — Kwame Dawes

104. “I’m always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.” — Stephen Shore

105. “Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.” — Milan Kundera

106. “There’s no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.” — Kristoffer Rygg

107. “Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.” — Richard Rogers

108. “Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.” — Evelyn Waugh

109. “What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.” — Susan Griffin

110. “Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.” — Friedrich Schiller

Do you have a new appreciation for the way you view the world?

When you realize the impact of aesthetics on you, it can change how you see the world.

It allows you to find and appreciate the beauty in unexpected places.

It’s something that can connect you with others and help you to view things from their perspective. 

Challenge yourself to find the beauty around you throughout your day.

Look for it in your mundane interactions and the familiar areas of life that you overlook.

Think about the way it impacts your decisions.

Take time to sit back, reflect on, and enjoy the appeal of the world around you.  

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