Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Those who insist on being up to date with today’s fashion are less irritating than those who try too hard when they do not feel that they ar...

Baroque, preciosity, modernism, are noble failings, but failings in the end. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 469

The nature of the work of art can depend on social conditions, but its aesthetic quality depends on nothing. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: ...

In modern art there were numerous trends that exhausted the aesthetic consciousness’s capacity for indignation. Escolios a un Texto Implícit...

The wealth of a merchant, of an industrialist, of a financier, is aesthetically inferior to wealth in land and flocks. Escolios a un Texto I...

Interesting autobiographies would be plentiful if writing the truth were not an aesthetic problem. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ...

The aesthetic impossibilities of an age stem not from social factors, but from internal censors. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

The civilizing effect of works of art is due less to the aesthetic value than to the ethic of aesthetic work. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

In aesthetics as well, one only reaches heaven by the uneven road and through the narrow gate. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

Ethics and aesthetics, when divorced, each submit more readily to man’s whims. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 406

Approaching religion through art is not the caprice of an aesthete: aesthetic experience spontaneously tends to expand into a presentiment o...

Discipline, order, hierarchy, are aesthetic values. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 400

Civilizations enter into agony when they forget that there exists not merely an aesthetic activity, but also an aesthetic of activity. Escol...

The evolution of works of art into objects of art and of objects of art into investments or into articles for consumption is a modern phenom...

Ethical conduct is the aesthetically satisfactory conduct. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 388

When religion and aesthetics are divorced from each other, it is not known which is corrupted sooner. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

It has required a titanic effort to make the modern world so ugly. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 384

The society that does not discipline attitudes and gestures renounces social aesthetics. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 346

Since the 18th century discovered “sensibility,” the serious philosophical task has consisted in isolating in it specific capacities for per...

The conventional is not necessarily an aesthetic defect, since it is merely a sociological trait. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ,...