Beauty Quote by Denis Dutton

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“I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.”

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I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.

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The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

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Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

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Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

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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…

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Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch.

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Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

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