The nature of beauty is still a complete mystery to me
Sublime
I'm a working artist, with a graduate education in the arts, and I feel completely at sea regarding all issues of aesthetics. Whenever I read nineteenth century writers, I'm struck by how sure they seemed to be about, you know, concepts! They knew things! And thought about things! And had theories about things!
Their theories usually seem intuiti…
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