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To define beauty is one of those necessary but impossible tasks that philosophers try to avoid. Nevertheless, it has always seemed to me undeniable that the true aim and fulfilment of the artist is to create beauty, and that beauty and creativity are different aspects of the same endeavour. Moreover, by creating beauty the artist glorifies God’s creation. And beauty redeems what it touches, showing that the griefs and troubles of human life are, in the sum of things, worthwhile.
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Scruton, R. (2015). Beauty and the Sacred. In: Saunders, C., Macnaughton, J., Fuller, D. (eds) The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741_15
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