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Much art today has abandoned the ambition to please the viewer aesthetically. Instead, it seeks to shock, discommode, repulse, proselytize, or startle.

Roger Kimball

Aphorisms are the blossoms of thought. They may depend on stalk and soil, but their beauty is independent of those prerequisites.

Roger Kimball

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.

Roger Kimball

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball

Born: 1953 (age 72)

Bio: Roger Kimball, an American art critic and social commentator, is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and the publisher of Encounter Books.

Known for:

Tenured Radicals (1990)
Art's prospect (2002)

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