Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton, FBA, FRSLis an English philosopher who specialises in aesthetics. He has written over thirty books, including Art and Imagination, The Meaning of Conservatism, Sexual Desire, The Philosopher on Dover Beach, The Aesthetics of Music, Beauty, How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism, Our Church, and How to Be a Conservative. Scruton has also written several novels and a number of general textbooks on philosophy and culture, and he has composed...
art today selling
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.
real creativity artist
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.
art crafts curriculum
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
art humanity shock
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.
art desire kitsch
Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.
artist kitsch way
In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.
art children delight
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
religious art redemption
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry, but the kind of art that creates a whole world in itself and in that world we see ourselves reflected and see our religious life perfected.
art war men
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 real important
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.
art two everyday
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
artist expectations innovation
There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.
art light shining
Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.
art survival aspect
Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.