Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.
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
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
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
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…
Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved. - Denis Dutton
Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.
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
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…
Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance. - 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
[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…
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
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…
Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch - Denis Dutton
Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities th… - Denis Dutton
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities th…
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