Why beauty matters? Roger Scruton

I heard the raucous call of the crows.

And art has nothing to say in response to this except, „Yeah, go for it!”

He’s a carpenter by trade.

Philisophers have argued that through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as home.

She sat by the child bedside until he came to. We come to understand our own nature as spiritual beings.

Do you think working in a supermarket is a worthwhile career for a highly intelligent person?

Many modern artists have become weary of this sacred task.

Art once made a cult of beauty, now we have a cult of ugliness instead. Since the world is disturbing, art should be disturbing too.

With her beauty and charm, she captivated film audiences everywhere.

Ze swoją urodą i wdziękiem, urzekła widownie filmowe wszędzie.

We are besieged by messages on every side, titillated, tempted by appetite, never addressed and that is one reason why beauty is disappearing from our world.

Artworks often try to capture our attention as adverts do, by being brash or outrageous.

In our culture today, the advert is more important than the work of art. And artworks often try to capture our attention as adverts do, by being brash or outrageous.

Architecture too has become soulless and sterile

Architektura także stała się bezduszna i jałowa.

This makes art into an elaborate joke though by now that has ceased to be funny, we had the critics go on endorsing it, afraid to say that the emperor has no clothes.

This makes art into an elaborate joke though by now that has ceased to be funny, we had the critics go on endorsing it, afraid to say that the emperor has no clothes.

żart przestał być śmieszny

Of course, ideas can be interesting and amusing, but this does not justify the appropriation of the label “art.”

Oczywiście, idee mogą być interesujące i zabawne, ale to nie usprawiedliwia nadawania im etykiety "sztuki".

We are besieged by messages on every side, titillated, tempted by appetite.

Beauty is assailed from two directions: by the cult of ugliness in the arts and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

Reading was a charming Victorian town with terraced streets and gothic churches crowned by public buildings and smart hotels.

The town is crowned by elegant public buildings and smart hotels.

The homely streets were demolished to make way for office blocks.

Przytulne ulice zostały zdemolowane, by zrobić miejsce dla biurowych bloków.

This building is boarded up because nobody has a use for it, and nobody has a use for it because nobode wants to be in it.

The only things at home here are the pigeons fouling the pavements.

Once a forge, now a cafe.

In the midst of all this desolation we find a fragment of the streets that were destroyed.

w środku całego tego opuszczenia znajdujemy fragment ulic...

We are partly governed by animal appetites.

Jesteśmy częściowo rządzeni przez zwierzęce apetyty.

If our spiritual needs go unsatisfied, so do we.

Jeśli nasze duchowe potrzeby są niezaspokojone, my także jesteśmy.

a glimpse into the world of the wealthy

zerknięcie na świat bogaczy

If human beauty arouses desire, how can anything to do with the divine?

Jeśli ludzkie piękno wzbudza pożądanie, jak zatem może mieć coś wspólnego z boskością?

Lust brings ugliness. The ugliness of human relations in which one person treats another as a disposable instrument.