"I have my own definition of aesthetics, too." "Lay it on me." "It makes art historians’ hair stand on end. Aesthetics equals the image in a work of art—and t

"I have my own definition of aesthetics, too." "Lay it on me." "It makes art historians’ hair stand on end. Aesthetics equals the image in a work of art—and the image need not be a visual image—but an image from our five senses, plus the apparatus that generates it. For example, at CERN, I asked a physicist for his definition of aesthetics, and he said, “My notion of aesthetics is nicely laid out wires.” I saw them. There are these units of parallel wires, nothing crossed over, and the wires are color coded. It was beautiful." Props to this dude for a new achievement in épater le bourgeois.