Art Quotes by Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

Art

Aspect

Survival

Roger Scruton

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

Art

Cult

Made

Roger Scruton

Like adverts, today’s works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

Art

Selling

Today

Roger Scruton

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies–socialist politics and modernist art–have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

Art

Men

War

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Sean Scully

Zygmunt Bauman

Gloria Steinem

Adam Phillips

Angela Carter

Abstract

Addiction

Addresses

Anarchy

Apathy

Architecture

Argument

Art

Artist

Asking

Aspect

Assumption

Atheist

Attention

Attitude

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Benefits

Bernard Shaw

Borders

Boring

Building

Bullying

Civilization

Cult

Culture

Deeds

Demand

Desert

Desire

Differences

Diversity

Doe

Doubt

Emotion

Emotional

Example

Exercise

Feelings

Firsts

Games

Generations

Government

Gratitude

Half

Hands

Heart

Home

Hours

Ignorance

Imagination

Inspiration

Institutions

Intellect

Joy

Judgement

Judging

Kitsch

Known

Lasts

Lines

Loss

Loyalty

Lying

Mad

Made

May

Mean

Men

Modernism

Moral

Morning

Moving

Needs

Nice

Opinion

Order

Our World

Pageant

Party

People

Philosopher

Philosophy

Political

Propose

Protect

Purpose

Real

Reality

Religious

Resentment

Retorts

Rights

Risk

Sacrifice

Secret

Selling

Sex

Simple

Smell

Socialist

Sometimes

Sorrow

Spiritual

Survival

Thinking

Today

Truth

Truth Is

Useless

Vanishing

Views

Virtue

Voice

Wall

Want

War

Way

Wine

World

Would Be

Art Quotes by Roger Scruton

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

Like adverts, today’s works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

The two most potent post-war orthodoxies–socialist politics and modernist art–have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

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Sean Scully

Zygmunt Bauman

Gloria Steinem

Adam Phillips

Angela Carter

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