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"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." »Donald E. Knuth
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety 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 Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"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." »Rmy de Gourmont
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"It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle." »John Updike
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