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“Our need for beauty is not something that we could lack and still be fulfilled as people. It is a need arising from our metaphysical […]
“Our need for beauty is not something that we could lack and still be fulfilled as people. It is a need arising from our metaphysical […]
Here are some quotes from the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian accompanied by a few of my black and white photos. I’m aware that it is […]
To me, one way of looking at this odd building is as some strange creature peering out over the makeshift wooden fence. It’s not threatening […]
This photo is of some metalwork in front of an old building that I’ve wandered past from time to time. The sun was throwing a […]
“When three-dimensional space is projected monocularly on to a plane, relationships are created that did not exist before the picture was taken. Things in the […]
“The real study of an art student is more of a development of that sensitive nature and appreciative imagination with which he was so fully […]
“Artists are sometimes asked, “Why do you paint ugly and not beautiful things?” The questioner rarely hesitates in his judgment of what is beautiful and […]
“The appreciation of art should not be considered as merely a pleasurable pastime. To apprehend beauty is to work for it. It is a mighty […]
“Everything that is beautiful is orderly, and there can be no order unless things are in their right relation to each other. Of this right […]
“The beautiful and imperishable comes into existence due to the suffering of individual perishable creatures who themselves are not beautiful, and must be reshaped to […]
Aesthetics is usually defined as “a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful and with judgments concerning beauty.” I recall the endurance […]
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