aesthetic principle

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Cage’s embrace of chance as an aesthetic principle had a profound effect on Paik, as did the composer’s attempts to break down the distinction between conventional music and other sounds.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

In the tradition of similarly made first features like Satyajit Ray’s “Pather Panchali” and John Cassavetes’s “Shadows,” it is a movie that raises pragmatic invention to an aesthetic principle.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2020

This is their recipe for never growing up, and Zeitlin appears to have adopted it as an aesthetic principle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2020

But it was hard for me to find fault with Sanchez’s underlying aesthetic principle: Popeyes fried chicken is fantastic.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2019

Fortunately the landlord had never heard the aesthetic principle that exposure of basic construction is more desirable than gaudy decoration.

From Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes by Addams, Jane