This isn’t to say that conservatism is opposed to the arts in principle, or that ‘openness’ is not a trait that will be found among those who identify with conservative positions (that would be a lie, which the more sophomoric forms of liberalism would be happy to perpetuate), but that the ‘openness’ that characterizes the temperament of artists individually, and the atmosphere of the arts in general, perhaps isn’t as prevalent in conservatism, or is buried more deeply within it.