> Beauty. What is beauty? Beauty is that which gives aesthetic pleasure. Beauty is both subjective and objective—subjective because it is “in the eye of the beholder” but objective in that “pleasure” is something you either experience or you do not. If a building isn’t giving people pleasure to look at, then it is not beautiful, because beautiful things are things that you want to keep looking at because seeing them brings joy.
This gives me vibes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The author talks a lot about "quality" and how it's impossible to define exactly what it is. It's either there, or it's not, and we know when it is intrinsically, but efforts to define the "magic formula" fail to capture what quality entails.
> Beauty. What is beauty? Beauty is that which gives aesthetic pleasure. Beauty is both subjective and objective—subjective because it is “in the eye of the beholder” but objective in that “pleasure” is something you either experience or you do not. If a building isn’t giving people pleasure to look at, then it is not beautiful, because beautiful things are things that you want to keep looking at because seeing them brings joy.
This gives me vibes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The author talks a lot about "quality" and how it's impossible to define exactly what it is. It's either there, or it's not, and we know when it is intrinsically, but efforts to define the "magic formula" fail to capture what quality entails.