Sentences with phrase «various objects of beauty»
His enormous, pillared studio in downtown Manhattan is decorated by various objects of beauty, including a collection of giant canvases upon which rainbows have been exploded and teased into myriad stately statements, any one of which could take the skin off your eyeballs.
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As the American poet and essayist Mark Signorelli has written: «Once it became common to doubt or to deny that man had any essential inclination toward beauty or truth, the purpose of making objects intended to unite beauty and truth in various ways was no longer evident.»
It sees the truth of any sort of object (say an apple) not as that object itself, in its strange and lovely transience, passing through its various moments of existence (seed, tree, ripened fruit hanging on the bough, fruit eaten or moldering away) but as the unchanging form on which it is modeled (the apple that never shines forth in the beauty of its own color, that has no flavor or fragrance, that has never lived).