One More Thing
What's beautiful depends on who we are, what we've encountered, where we live, and when. Likewise, the art that opens us to the chaotic stream of reality-the art we find beautiful-changes with time and with us, as we evolve. Beauty, I'd come to think, doesn't have to have a physical form, and it certainly doesn't have to be something we agree on. B
... See moreBianca Bosker • Get the Picture
Debbie Foster and added
What if beauty was just our name for experiences that push us out of our mental ruts and burst open our reducing valves of consciousness?
Bianca Bosker • Get the Picture
Debbie Foster and added
I keep telling myself that beauty, the pursuit of beauty, is its own narrative. Sometimes all I know is what I’m compelled by, what I can’t stop looking at, and nothing else. For a perpetual seeker, that’s the only next step that matters. I keep trying to move towards what I like, away from what I don’t like. Forward, forward, no looking down.
Ava • december
Zach Kirshner added
What is beauty?
Symmetry is beautiful, because life blooms in cycles rather than episodes.
Elegance is beautiful, because everything that matters can be described in a few math equations or observed between a few kindergartners.
Contrast is beautiful, because something that lacks an alternative also lacks meaning.
Connection is beautiful, because the s... See more
Symmetry is beautiful, because life blooms in cycles rather than episodes.
Elegance is beautiful, because everything that matters can be described in a few math equations or observed between a few kindergartners.
Contrast is beautiful, because something that lacks an alternative also lacks meaning.
Connection is beautiful, because the s... See more
andrea and added
If you want to know if you’ve forgotten how to marvel, try staring at something beautiful for five minutes and see where your mind goes.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
meghna added
Learning to be on the lookout for beautiful things is a way of contesting the relentlessly rationalistic view of the world that surrounds us. Just as we produce thoughts by talking things over, we produce memories by composing them and reflecting. By taking lots of photos you may come to find more things you cherish.
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
nibras and added
More than the grand beauties of our lives, wonder is about having the presence to pay attention to the commonplace. It could be said that to find beauty in the ordinary is a deeper exercise than climbing to the mountaintop.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
meghna and added
After my experience at The Met, I spent the next few months viewing and considering as much beauty as I could. I went to more museums. I spent weeks researching obscure Baroque furniture makers, legendary luthiers, prominent architects, naturalist illustrators, Italian car designers, and philosophers of aesthetics. What I came out the other side be... See more
Origins
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