Beauty
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Beauty
Yohji-san has developed a definition of what’s beautiful that’s his and his alone — that your clothes protect you, sure, but in doing so, they hint at the soul within and insist on your humanness.
Yohji Yamamoto is living on his own terms
His obsession is imperfection. Imbalance.
“Some people are just nice to look at, but they’re not muses.”
Shouldn't it be easier than ever before to make beautiful structures? Why isn't it the default? Why can't we seem to?
It is far easier to move the earth than it was 200 years ago, yet the end result gives a feeling that nobody is really trying their best. https://t.co/OZwjXjI29T
We train our focus on beauty here or there—this poem, that architecture—because it is easier than bearing witness to our own story. We begin to gravitate not toward beauty but toward illusion. In this state, you are not approaching what you seek. You are running from your own face. But this is not the way of wonder. Wonder requires a person not to
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And there’s a lot of positive evidence. It’s not that there’s some metaphysical concept of beauty that rules the world — beauty is a human experience. It’s something that has to do with how humans react to the world and perceive the world. And it’s notoriously thought to be subjective, but it’s not entirely subjective. There’s a very rich history... See more
On Being • Beauty as a Compass for Truth
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What makes something beautiful? — Schiller & Architecture
youtube.comPerhaps you’ve known that person who devours beauty as if it belongs to them. It is a possessive wonder. It eats not to delight but to collect, trade, and boast. It consumes beauty to grow in ego, not in love. It climbs mountains to gain ownership, not to gain freedom.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
