It is surprisingly rare to hear Beauty being discussed in books and articles about art, so it was a great pleasure to find this paragraph in the book I recently acquired.
"I cannot believe that the artist who establishes beauty as his fundamental approach to art can go very far wrong. No one denies that beauty is broad in scope, so broad that no single lifetime could encompass more than a small part of it. The great danger lies in allowing beauty to get bogged down in personal opinions, trends, and isms, in narrowing our individual understanding to the dogmas prated by the few. Beauty must be free, belonging individually to you and me, as far as we are capable of grasping it. Beauty is all around us, waiting to be discovered, and every artist interprets it on paper or canvas in his own particular way."
- Andrew Loomis, The Eye Of The Painter
Look what you're missing... ;-)
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