"My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction."

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There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates it with national-socialism. But this has nothing to do with the romantics, whose ideal of the aesthetic state has much more to do with the republican tradition.

— Frederick C. Beiser