“Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.” IfsKindArtEndsBeautyIdolsAestheticAllegianceSeductiveBeauty Of LifeDegeneratesCaricaturesFetishRest Of Life Book:Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age Source: Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age
“Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.” IfsArtEndsLife IsArtistWeekEconomicIntegrityIdealsIndependenceProfessionPreservesAestheticHatefulGrindSolaceIdeal LifeDaily GrindEconomic IndependenceWeek End Author:Walter J. Phillips