Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Aesthetics

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  1. I am surprised you should say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these would be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

  2. It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

  3. Beauty ... is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

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