Countering ugliness
October 31st, 2005 | Published in Quotes, Art and Design
Cultivation of beauty as a part of life is a way to counter the ugliness that pervades contemporary secular culture. The concrete slabs, the featureless metal buildings, the sterile high-tech look, and the mass production of impersonal consumer products are all signs of how modern materialism, in turning away from God, has also turned away from what is human.
—Gene Edward Veith, Jr., State of the Arts, p. 34