Beauty is Necessity:
For Wilde, beauty was a value higher than usefulness. People need
useless things just as much, even more than, they need things with a
use. Just think of it…what is the use of love, or friendship, of
worship? None whatsoever. And the same goes for beauty.” “This
returns me to Oscar Wilde’s remark that all art is absolutely useless.
Put usefulness first, and you lose it. Put beauty first, and what you do
will be useful forever. It turns out, nothing is more useful than the
useless.
Through
the pursuit of beauty, we shape the world as a home, and in doing so,
we both amplify our joys, and find consolation for our sorrows. Art and
music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are
able to confront the things that trouble us, and find consolation and
peace in their presence. This capacity of beauty to redeem our suffering
is one reason why beauty can be seen as a substitute for religion. Why
give priority to religion? Why not say that religion is a beauty
substitute? Or better still, why describe the two as rivals? The sacred
and the beautiful stand side by side; two doors that open up into a
single space, and in that space, we find our homeStay Beautiful Look Beautiful
Beauty is an essential obligation. Beauty now appears not as the world’s secret nor the soul’s longing but a fateful, ever-present promise between our haunted psyches and the mysterious world around us, an atmosphere, a charge that precipitates illusion-piercing surprise. “The necessity of beauty”—the world is beauty-full, it is our duty to attend it.Beauty is dynamic, alive, energized, healthy, powerful.Nature does possess beauty, as poets, artists, scientists and people from all sides will testify. Therefore a beautiful theorem, provided it is reasonably grounded, will be very likely true, whether proofs be available or not.To some, the every day soap-opera, that with the beautiful people leading perfect lives which are occasionally threatened for a brief moment by a stereotypical villain, may seem vain and pointless. Yet apparently there is a purpose to vanity as there is in most things in this world. The little every day things that keep your mind away from the pain and ugliness that otherwise surrounds the existence of everyone who is consciously aware of the world they live in.

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