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Tag Tag Aesthetics
Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson ·

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“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“A record player, a kitchen appliance, a slide projector or a shaver with disorderly, chaotic, confusing or overloaded design cannot fulfil its functions. The harmony of a design too, its aesthetic quality, also has a functional purpose—it facilitates a positive emotional relationship between a device and its user.”

Dieter Rams · Less but better, 1995 · Primary source

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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
Behavior

An exploration of beauty in nature, people and art, considering how form, proportion, character and perception shape aesthetic experience.

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