What Is Good Art?
June 14th, 2005 | Published in Quotes, Culture, Art and Design
Good art, on the other hand, takes us to a world we wouldn’t have imagined ourselves. It does not leave us where it found us. “In a fully aesthetic experience, feeling is deepened, given new content and meaning. Till then, we did not know what it was we felt; one could say that the feeling was not truly ours.” Great music, literature, painting, or architecture imprints itself in our lives and becomes a reference point for our most subtle and profound experiences.
—Kenneth A. Myers All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians & Popular Culture (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1989), p. 82