25 ideas
22077 | Metaphysics is the lattice which makes incoming material intelligible [Hegel] |
23928 | Good art produces exaltation and detachment [Bell,C] |
12163 | Literary meaning emerges in comparisons, and tradition shows which comparisons are relevant [Scruton] |
23922 | The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions [Bell,C] |
23921 | Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art [Bell,C] |
23929 | We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value [Bell,C] |
23923 | Visual form can create a sublime mental state [Bell,C] |
23932 | Art is the expression of an emotion for ultimate reality [Bell,C] |
23927 | Aestheticism invites artist to create beauty, but with no indication of how to do it [Bell,C] |
8115 | Only artists can discern significant form; other people must look to art to find it [Bell,C, by Gardner] |
23924 | Maybe significant form gives us a feeling for ultimate reality [Bell,C] |
23931 | Significant form is the essence of art, which I believe expresses an emotion about reality [Bell,C] |
20434 | 'Form' is visual relations, and it is 'significant' if it moves us aesthetically; art needs both [Bell,C, by Feagin] |
23934 | The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form [Bell,C] |
12162 | In literature, word replacement changes literary meaning [Scruton] |
12159 | Without intentions we can't perceive sculpture, but that is not the whole story [Scruton] |
23925 | Mere copies of pictures are not significant - unless the copies are very exact [Bell,C] |
12160 | In aesthetic interest, even what is true is treated as though it were not [Scruton] |
23926 | Art is distinguished by its aesthetic emotion, which produces appropriate form [Bell,C] |
12161 | We can be objective about conventions, but love of art is needed to understand its traditions [Scruton] |
23935 | Aesthetic experience is an exaltation which increases the possibilities of life [Bell,C] |
23933 | Aesthetic contemplation is the best and most intense mental state [Bell,C] |
22691 | Only artistic qualities matter in art, because they also have the highest moral value [Bell,C] |
21756 | All revolutions result from spirit changing its categories, to achieve a deeper understanding [Hegel] |
23930 | Religion sees infinite value in some things, and irrelevance in the rest [Bell,C] |