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The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

— Franz Grillparzer

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

— Suzanne Vega

Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.

— Steve Breen

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

— Bruno Dumont

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

— Emma Bonino

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.

— Susan Collins

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

— Friedrich Schiller

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

— J. Paul Getty

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

✗Opposing Perspectives

A bit of a theory, more a corner of the eye noticing than an airtight argument: in the course of long artistic careers, women are more likely than men to change form and style, Proteus-like.

— Stacey D'Erasmo

I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ in the quality of their work. Why are women artists less known and less admired?

— Agnes Gund