A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art -… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is. — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
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