"Creativity is not enough... the skill of the……" — Roger Scruton

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to… - Roger Scruton

"Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it."

— Roger Scruton

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47 Quotes by Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And…
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the…
Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the…
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer…
State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof…
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of…
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements…
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines…
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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