"Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness"

- R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943)

Source: R.G. Collingwood. 1938. "Good Art and Bad Art", in The Principles of Art, pp. 280-5, Oxford: Oxford university Press. Printed in: Harrison & Wood (ed). Art in Theory. 1900-2000. An Anthology Of Changing Ideas. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
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