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“But what a natural object or artifact signifies to me must depend on my character and history at least as much as on its own. The reality we are dealing with when we talk of beauty is aesthetic experience. But not all claims to aesthetic experience are justified; they may have degrees of vivacity and purity or may have quite falsely assumed the name. Some people call beautiful what they think true or edifying or useful or sensuously agreeable, and nothing else. This is to have bad taste. Some hardly recognize any beauty. This is to have little taste.”
― An Introduction to Aesthetics
― An Introduction to Aesthetics
“Novelty is stimulating, for we are all apt to be bored; familiarity is restful for we are all apt to be lazy; and these two weaknesses infect all our activities, intellectual, moral, and aesthetic. But perhaps no counterfeit aesthetic experience is so obvious as that of the man who only likes what is old or what is the latest novelty or the latest archaism. No taste is more worthless than one confined to plays that are all the rage, or to the book of the year, or to the picture exhibition which is a succès de scandale, the chatter of all the studios and bitterly controverted in the Press. To be merely and eagerly in the fashion shows little taste in dress. Yet here again it is impossible to be quite certain about other people and difficult about oneself. It admittedly requires as much talent to appreciate the poetry or painting of an age whose history and civilization are unknown to us as to accept the innovations of original genius.”
― An Introduction to Aesthetics
― An Introduction to Aesthetics
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