WoW 06

The act of creation and the act of appreciation of beauty are not in essence, distinguishable.
-H. E. Huntley

I shall define beauty to be the harmony of all parts in whatsoever subject it appears, fitted together with such proportions and connections that nothing could be added, diminished or altered but for the worst.
-Alberti

"The aesthetic moment" is "that flitting instant, so brief as to be almost timeless, when the spectator is at one with the work of art. He ceases to be his ordinary self, and the picture or building, statue, landscape or aesthetic actuality is no longer outside himself. The two become one entity."
-Bernard Berenson

An aesthetic feeling is the emotion generated by the interaction between an object of beauty and an observer.
-H. E. Huntley

Aesthetic (definition)
adj.
1. Of or concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste: the aesthetic faculties.
2. Characterized by a heightened sensitivity to beauty.
n.
1. A guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty and taste; artistic sensibility.