“ If a man demands light, sound, and splendour, he proves that he has the aesthetic equilibrium ”
George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty (1896). copy citation
Author | George Santayana |
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Source | The Sense of Beauty |
Topic | aesthetics equilibrium |
Date | 1896 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26842/26842-h/26842-h.htm |
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“Where, on the contrary, insensibility to higher forms of beauty does not exclude a natural love of the lower, we have every reason to be encouraged; there is a true and healthy taste, which only needs experience to refine it. If a man demands light, sound, and splendour, he proves that he has the aesthetic equilibrium; that appearances as such interest him, and that he can pause in perception to enjoy. We have but to vary his observation, to enlarge his thought, to multiply his discriminations — all of which education can do — and the same aesthetic habit will reveal to him every shade of the fit and fair.”
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