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The beauty of concrete - Works in Progress

Post-it Notes on Beauty

There is a type of beauty where the beauty is derived from the action.

People think more creative people are more ethical.

Beauty exists in a spectrum.

Beauty becomes more objective the more primal things are (e.g. fire, water).

When something is so new that our brain doesn’t know how to process it, we develop an aversion to it.

Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness, like. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. So I think beauty in that sense is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth, and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life. - John O'Donohue

How does the good, the true, and the beautiful tie into essay writing?

I think Essay Architecture covers the beautiful. It’s the vessel to shape something so it’s engaging, balanced, and full. Truth is writing about topics that are real and honest and unique to you, while the good is about arriving at an idea that condones harmony and advances the s

Seek beauty in nature, rather than in stores. You can’t buy a beautiful sunset, a star-filled sky, or a field of wildflowers at the mall—nor can you wrap them up, take them home, and display them on a shelf. Instead of filling your home with decorative objects, look outside to satisfy your desire for aesthetic beauty.

Francine Jay • Miss Minimalist: Inspiration to Downsize, Declutter, and Simplify

In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis ) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.

Sublime (philosophy)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for human-made things. But natural things may be objectively more beautiful.

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

Bianca Bosker • Get the Picture

I find that it’s in this search for aesthetic satisfaction that so many of the best lessons are found. I’m not talking about ornamentation or bells and whistles. I’m taking about the beauty of the four Cs: Clarity, cohesion, consistency, and conciseness.