“Beauty is both rational and analyzable but also in part indefinable.”
“Through beauty we might be able to regain a stronger sense of human values and pleasure in living.”
(Quotes from “Remembering Beauty: Reflections on Kant and Cartier-Bresson for Aspiring Photographers)
I found this article very interesting; it made me realize how difficult it is to simply define beauty. What makes something beautiful? “It is noteworthy that we often call a person of courage, goodness, and humility, a beautiful human being... Beauty is the only visible quality that inspires love.” People have been trying to come up with a definition/stereotype for what is “beautiful” for as long as time has existed. Have they been successful? What gives anyone the right to define something as beautiful and publish it as fact? All of us live in a world where certain things are labeled as beautiful, and others are not. In my mind, everything can be, and is beautiful. In fact, sometimes it’s the things that society regards as "ugly" that might be the most beautiful in actuality.
Who’s to say that the rose without petals is less beautiful than a full one? And who’s to say the thorns aren’t equally beautiful?
In photography, do photos have to be in focus to beautiful? And can the focus be on the unexpected?
Perhaps we have to look past the “beautiful art” we see around us to find moments that are just as if not more special.
“Words in the end cannot replace the experience of beauty.
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