When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The world of art, I have suggested, is full of fakes. Fake originality, fake emotion and the fake expertise of the critics… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Faking depends on a measure of complicity between the perpetrator and the victim, who together conspire to believe what they don’t believe… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
You cannot own a symphony or a novel in the way you can own a Damien Hirst. As a result there are… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Perhaps the world of art is just one vast pretence, in which we all take part since, after all, there is no… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings –… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“I say it was immediately apparent, but it was not apparent to the intellectual class, which has remained largely wedded to the post-war consensus… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
