Aesthetic experience for its own sake
October 30th, 2005 | Published in Quotes, Art and Design
Aesthetic experience, the perception of beauty, is valuable for its own sake and can also profoundly enrich our lives. Art can open our eyes to the beauties of the created order. A painting or a song or a poem can spark a flash of illumination. Art can even disclose spiritual truths and express them in a penetrating way. It is little wonder that the church has always employed art in one way or another.
—Gene Edward Veith, Jr., State of the Arts, p. 26