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Aesthetics
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work.
Competition arises. The wild battle for success becomes more and more material. Small groups who have fought their way to the top of the chaotic world of art and picture-making entrench themselves in the territory they have won. The public, left far behind, looks on bewildered, loses interest and turns away.
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― Concerning the Spiritual in Art
― Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.
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― Dead Until Dark
― Dead Until Dark
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