Denis Dutton Quotes

I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

Denis Dutton

Quotes to Explore

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Gail Porter
- Want
- Down
- Mental Illness
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

Zach Woods
- School
- Home
- High
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Barbara Cartland
- Book
- Kind
- Where
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan
- Imagination
- Never
- Carry
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Water
- Religion
- Color
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Natasha Trethewey
- Life
- Up
- Growing