“Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and. “Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.” – Richard O. “Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.” – Leonard Bernstein. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.” – Cornel West, Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. “Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.” – Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. “In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” – Tom Robbins.
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