'Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.'

-Barthelme, Donald
  Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural  Acts,'The Indian Uprising'.

It has been often said, even by proponents of those picturesknown inaestheticslang as Cubist and Abstract, that they have no subject matter. Such a statement is equivalent to saying that life has no subject matter.

-Davis, Stuart
  'The Cube Root', in  Art News, vol.41,1 Feb.

Johnson's aesthetic judgements are almost invariably subtle, or solid, or bold; they have always some good quality to recommend themöexcept one: theyare never right.

-Strachey, (Giles) Lytton
  On SamuelJohnson. Books and Characters,'Lives of the Poets'.

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.3, ch.1.