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Art Quotes by Roger Scruton
- 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 and tell us…
- Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
- The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
- Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which…
- The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
- Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
- Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and…
- In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry,…
- Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.
- Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov