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Quotation from Lectures on Calvinism by Abraham Kuyper
“the beautiful is not the product of our own fantasy, nor of our subjective perception, but has an objective existence, being itself the expression of a Divine perfection.”
Lectures on Calvinism, Lecture V, Calvinism and Art (Calvinism: Six Stone-Lectures (English edition, c. 1898-99), Internet Archive OCR text)
Kuyper's argument that beauty is real and rooted in God, so that art discovers rather than invents it.
Citation: "the beautiful is not the product of our own fantasy, nor of our subjective perception, but has an objective existence, being itself the expression of a Divine perfection." — Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism, Lecture V, Calvinism and Art (Calvinism: Six Stone-Lectures (English edition, c. 1898-99), Internet Archive OCR text). (id kuyper-lectures-on-calvinism-q6)
Portrait: Abraham Kuyper 1905 (1), Unknown photographer, Public domain.
