Esthete

A cultivated esthete, Manookian was fascinated by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo, a historical novel set in ancient Carthage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you were to ask our eight-year-old where she spends her weekends, her current answer would be the Museum of Modern Art. And not because she's a mini-esthete with beret and attitude -- this season MOMA simply packs more fun in a single building than any other venue in Manhattan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It makes him the CEO as esthete -- as un-American an image as they come. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My wife and I and our Arab friends mourned the death of a passionate esthete who brought great wit and discernment to the arid confines of Amman society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even that relentless esthete Edward Weston, a man accustomed to making things look the way he thought they should look, tips his hat to the desert's brutal power with his 1937 portrait of a dead drifter that he literally stumbled on while walking in the desert near San Diego. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They could have been bolder about giving Southern artists a bigger share of the spotlight, but even in their timidity, they have showcased enough top-drawer Southern culture to satisfy the most demanding esthete. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'd always had the impression that golf was something of an esthete sport, what with the collared polo shirt tucked in to khakis with belt. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Blunt art historian, esthete, and homosexual was a distant cousin of Queen Mary. ❋ James Burke (2007)

Leader of the esthete Florentine layabouts was Seymour Kirkup, a Brit painter with it was said too much money and not enough talent. ❋ James Burke (2007)

How his appreciation for beauty, art (he is an esthete) is real, but seems to have no impact at all on the world. ❋ Readersguide (2005)

So I'll never be an esthete; I lack judgment in matters of beauty. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1973)

That is what art is to be, must come to in the consciousness of the artist most of all, he is perhaps the greatest offender in matters of judgment and taste; and the next greatest offender is the dreadful go-between or "middleman" esthete who so glibly contributes effete values to our present day conceptions. ❋ Marsden Hartley (N/A)

The redman is the one truly indigenous religionist and esthete of America. ❋ Marsden Hartley (N/A)

It not only attracted her physically; but in that moment it possessed real objective beauty for her; as it would have possessed for the most cultivated esthete that might be standing in her place. ❋ Edison Marshall (1930)

If you were to ask our eight-year-old where she spends her weekends, her current answer would be The Museum of Modern Art. And not because she's a mini-esthete with beret and attitude --- this season MOMA simply packs more fun in a single building than any other venue in Manhattan. ❋ Jesse Kornbluth (2010)

"He was an esthete with lots of opinions about finishes." ❋ Unknown (2010)

When you wake up in the morning and your esthete is lying ass-crack up in a pool of yellowing sweat, you're going to look next door and see Aleksey Vayner doing stomach crunches. ❋ Nicholas Bartz Claire G (2010)

You should date my friend [Mary], she is [very nice] and smart, but she is just [esthetically challenged]. ❋ MsSouthJersey (2010)