Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Love and art create beauty through their connection, rather than just finding it existing.
- In plain terms
- Love and art make things beautiful by engaging with them.
- What can you take from it?
- Beauty is created through engagement.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What makes something beautiful to you?
- How does your attention change what you see?
Another view
Some beauty exists independently of human perception.
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