Beauty Doesn't Fail Us - Imagination over Machine -
Marina de Moses
““You cannot hear music and noise at the same time”
Beauty Doesn’t Fail Us - Imagination Over Machine
Where Music, Drawing and Inner Transformation Meet
Beauty (like truth) cannot be forced on anyone, it cannot be angry or antagonistic…the Good, the True and the Beautiful are their own best arguments for themselves, by themselves, and in themselves.
When one loves beauty, ideas and truth one desires to learn and to understand the world.
The point isn’t to be “right” or “wrong, “smart” or “dumb”, – it is to incessantly want to know more than you do. Socrates’ main point. A life without curiosity doesn’t count.
The Greek word kalokagathia (kalos=beauty + agathos=good) was a natural combination in the Greek context. It was used not only for the descriptions of beautiful things, but also morally admirable character and conduct, and technically useful things.
When we replace the letter I with We – then even Illness becomes Wellness.
Or in the words of Mark Twain – “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”