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Originally Posted by bristol scout
I suppose what it boils down to ---for me--is this,
I can see the beauty in a sunset, in a bird in flight, in the poets big heart, in the sweep of a Viking ship breasting the waves, in a mona lisa, in a Parthenon or any of the things like that---you know, what I mean.
Those things, and all the things like them are wonderous works of real and timeless beauty----they took immense skill and a superb 'eye' to accomplish and a beautiful 'soul' to imagine in the first place.
The rest---well, a baby let loose with some paints could do as much- wheres the 'humanity' in that--no skill, no wonder no 'soul' no magic....
OK OK i'll shut up 
Dave. |
Hi. cadet leader,
i am in total agreement--all real art--the stuff that uplifts us--makes us sometimes better than we really are, comes from the soul! but i should add that as an aethiest I don't mean that in a religious sense but in the innate wonder we share at the world around us and our unique place in it.
Dave. edit--don't know where my 'capitals' went !!!!