#aesthetic

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Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as has been his career, it has been full of promise for the future. The son of highly intellectual parents, he has had an exceptional education, has travelled much in wild and remote, through classic lands, and in the course of these journeys has learnt to appreciate the beauties of the old authors, in whose works whilst at college he attained exceptional proficiency. But his naturally enthusiastic temperament teaches him to hope for better in the future than has been achieved in the past, and to see how vast will be the influence of Art and Literature on the coming democracy of Intellect, when education and culture shall have taught men to pride themselves on what they have done, and not alone on the deeds of their ancestors.


Walter Hamilton


#oscar-wilde #victorian #victorian-era #walter-hamilton #age

Arguments for preservation based on the beauty of wilderness are sometimes treated as if they were of little weight because they are "merely aesthetic". That is a mistake. We go to great lengths to preserve the artistic treasures of earlier human civilisations. It is difficult to imagine any economic gain that we would be prepared to accept as adequate compensation for, for instance, the destruction of the paintings in the Louvre. How should we compare the aesthetic value of wilderness with that of the paintings in the Louvre? Here, perhaps, judgment does become inescapably subjective; so I shall report my own experiences. I have looked at the paintings in the Louvre, and in many of the other great galleries of Europe and the United States. I think I have a reasonable sense of appreciation of the fine arts; yet I have not had, in any museum, experiences that have filled my aesthetic senses in the way that they are filled when I walk in a natural setting and pause to survey the view from a rocky peak overlooking a forested valley, or by a stream tumbling over moss-covered boulders set amongst tall tree-ferns, growing in the shade of the forest canopy, I do not think I am alone in this; for many people, wilderness is the source of the greatest feelings of aesthetic appreciation, rising to an almost mystical intensity.


Peter Singer


#nature #art

I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.


Misha Glouberman


#art #art

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.


Clive Bell


#art #emotions #life #art

Sometimes diaspora art expresses a longing for home, and frequently it tries to construct a collective identity out of its mostly heterogeneous reality.


Sieglinde Lemke


#mercer #art

Ground beef can hardly be classified as meat. A pureed animal is an aesthetic ideal.


Bauvard


#art #beef #funny #humor #meat

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.


Aldo Leopold


#each #economically #ethically #examine #expedient

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.


Roger Scruton


#beauty #classic #style #beauty

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?


Ana Castillo


#aesthetic #brown #could #everything #i

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.


John Metcalf


#approach #become #committed #excellence #gathering