- Beauty — Scruton, 2009
Beauty is a fundamental human need arising from our nature as rational beings, requiring us to find meaning and order in our world through contemplative judgment rather than mere sensory pleasure.
- Psychomagic — Jodorowsky, 2010
Psychomagic is a therapeutic art form that uses symbolic acts to communicate directly with the unconscious, helping people heal by transforming their problems into creative expressions rather than analyzing them verbally.
- Sexual Personae — Paglia, 1990
Western art and culture are driven by a fundamental conflict between Apollonian form-making and Dionysian chthonian nature, with sex, gender, and artistic creation all rooted in pagan biological realities that no social reform can erase. The western aesthetic tradition, from Egypt to the nineteenth century, is a sustained Apollonian protest against the overwhelming force of female nature, producing both civilization's greatest achievements and its most extreme decadences.