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The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.
Denis Dutton
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Denis Dutton
Age: 66 †
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Died: 2010
Died: December 28
Philosopher
University Teacher
LA
California
Denis Laurence Dutton
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Humans
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Continuous
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A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes let's expand ourselves intellectually.
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Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch
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Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.
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Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.
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