Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting… — 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
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
Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent. — 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
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and… — 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
Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The sense of beauty puts a brake upon destruction, by representing its object as irreplaceable. When the world looks back at me… — 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
Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to… — 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
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
