Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage Quotes

“The historical division between the beautiful and the sublime indicates that an aesthetic experience is not necessarily linked to beauty, but can also be induced by the unpleasant, unbalanced, distorted, or even hideous.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage

“Decay is renewal--a perhaps contradictory sentence that nevertheless characterizes the aesthetically sustainable product, which ages gracefully and which possesses the germ of aesthetic decay as process. Decay equals renewal in the sense that aesthetic decay ensures the continued interest and fascination of the recipient.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage

“Fashion is by definition focused on new and forward-looking trends. But despite of its forward-looking and new-is-good doctrine, fashion constantly borrows from the stylistic expressions of earlier times.”
― Kristine H. Harper, Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage