The great artists of the past were aware that human life is full of chaos and suffering. They had a remedy for this, and the name of that remedy was beauty. The beautiful work of art brings consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy. It shows human life to be worthwhile.
But art turned its back on beauty. It became a slave to the consumer culture, feeding our pleasures and addictions, and wallowing in self-disgust. . . They do not show reality , but take revenge on it, spoiling what might have been a home and leaving us to wander unconsoled and alienated in a spiritual desert.
~ Roger Scruton
Why Beauty Matters
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I have seen some very odd pieces of modern art and am convinced that they were completed under the influence of something.
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