Tuesday, January 26, 2010

#26 aesthetic

aesthetic- adjective- relating to pure beauty rather than to other considerations, artistic or relating to good taste

- aesthetician, noun, aestheticism, aesthetics (the study of such concepts as beauty, taste, etc.

- from the Greek, aisthetikos- perceptible by the senses

For the philosopher the whole matter of aesthetics is a subjective matter.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering; that kind of unity is needed again. ~ Ben Shneiderman

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