Quote by Northrop Frye
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pur

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. – Northrop Frye

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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. – Northrop Frye

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Enhance and intensify ones vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. – Ovid

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Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. – Jerry Saltz

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