Uh, well if your inbox was flooded it was probably me! I organized my favorites into categories and I'm not sure if you get a notice or not. I HOPE not! For Pete's sake, you'd be drowning in messages. But if it did, I apologize.

That's all for now. Got homework up to my eyeballs, speaking of which...I have to draw a few...

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Beauty

"When the power to see does not accompany the power to know - when the power to see is blunted - art historians, critics, and collectors all fall into the same kind of confusion. Even assuming that they correctly praise beautiful things, they will also, without fail, praise the ugly as well. This shows that ultimately they are not even praising the beautiful for the right reasons. Their blurred eyesight is incapable of distinguishing beauty and ugliness. They have not grasped the yardstick of beauty. They study things that have no place in history and cheerfully rank the good and bad side by side. When they are right, they are right by luck. Beauty is Essentially a matter of values. If values are confused, if there are no Standards, if valueless things are admitted among the valued, judgements of beauty lose their basis."

SOETSU YANAGI
From
“THE UNKNOWN CRAFTSMAN”