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…

- Denis Dutton

[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 abil…

- Denis Dutton

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

- Denis Dutton

I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of co…

- Denis Dutton

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 tru…

- Denis Dutton

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

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

- Denis Dutton

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, i…

- Denis Dutton

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

- Denis Dutton