Art has the ability to redeem ...

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.
 Roger Scruton

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Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.
 Roger Scruton
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry, but the kind of art that creates a whole world in itself and in that world we see ourselves reflected and see our religious life perfected.
 Roger Scruton
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
 Roger Scruton
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.
 Roger Scruton
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.
 Roger Scruton