Ari Aster

I know that I put a lot into 'Hereditary', and I'm proud of what it is. Beyond the fact that the film takes its time and asks for a certain amount of patience from the audience - and I hope it rewards that patience by the end - I know that I'm something of an aesthete. I care about aesthetics, and I love filmmaking.

American Director

Orson Welles

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

American Actor

Terry Teachout

Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.

American Critic

Sebastian Horsley

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.

British Artist

Frank Gehry

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

American Architect

Billy Collins

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

American Poet

H. P. Lovecraft

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

American Novelist

Raymond Loewy

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

American Designer

Hisham Matar

I think, ultimately, I am a sensualist and an aesthete.

American Writer

Joseph Brodsky

The career of an esthete was nothing I ever intended.

Use 'aesthete' in discussions about art, beauty, and cultural interests.

Contextual Use

'Aesthete' isn't limited to visual beauty; it applies to appreciation of beauty in general.

Not Just Visual

'Aesthete' often has a positive connotation, indicating refinement and sophistication.

Positive Tone

'Aesthete' also refers to someone who appreciates beauty in areas like design and fashion.

Beyond Art

An 'aesthete' often has a critical eye for detail and rarely settles for average.

Critical Eye

Being an 'aesthete' doesn’t mean superficial; focus can be on deeper beauty or craftsmanship.