Literary notes about esthetic (AI summary)
Literary authors employ the term “esthetic” to denote a refined sensitivity to beauty and artistic form that transcends mere functionality or utility. In some works, it highlights seemingly minor yet artistically arranged elements that complete a setting, as when small trifles contribute to a “beauty corner” [1]. In other contexts, “esthetic” helps delineate the sphere of cultured human experience from the merely technical or moral, suggesting that the cultivation of esthetic faculties is as essential as intellectual growth [2, 3]. Furthermore, the term is frequently invoked in discussions of how objects or scenes evoke harmonious enjoyment, with descriptions that frame beauty as an experience unfolding in space or time [4, 5]. Such usages illustrate literature’s broader engagement with the sensory and emotional dimensions of beauty, inviting readers to appreciate art both in its subtle details and its grand designs [6].
- Several other esthetic trifles, artistically arranged, completed the furnishings of the "beauty corner."
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - Books are very well, but books do not cover the whole domain of esthetic human culture.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain - It is as essential to cultivate the esthetic faculties and the heart qualities as to cultivate what we call the intellect.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - For esthetic pleasure there must be in the object something the contemplation of which will elicit such harmonious exercise of the faculties.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey - An esthetic image is presented to us either in space or in time.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - He gazed around, pleasurably appreciating the esthetic beauty of the colorful, arid scene.
— from Fair and Warmer by E. G. Von Wald
