Top Highlights

• There is an appealing idea about beauty which goes back to Plato and Plotinus,
• for what is most beautiful in everything that we choose. In fact too much attention to beauty might defeat its own object.
• Beauty is not the source of disinterested pleasure, but simply the object of a universal interest: the interest that we have in beauty, and in the pleasure that beauty brings.
• appreciation of the arts is a secondary exercise of aesthetic interest.
• Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling.