It is not possible to live without beauty because beauty immediately puts the mind right and generates all kinds of well being. What is good in life has its source in good not in evil, so the field of aesthetics represents the best that humanity can accomplish. This is why children identify good things with beauty; in fact, they see goodness in beauty.
At this moment, I can state that great transformation can only come about through the arts, which, after all, make up the basis of the human structure. Arts are the short cut between God and man.
As well, it actually seems that there is nothing more experimental than the arts; a creation always begins with some sound (music) or color (painting) or shape (sculpture) or story (novel) in order to illustrate a perception or a feeling, which never deny their origin.
As I have shown, sensations and feeling constitute the basis of life and all knowledge. Since art comes directly from these elements, there can be no doubt that it is through the arts that all life and understanding will be influenced.
Beauty is always dialectic*: music´s dialectics can be found in the union of melody and rhythm, sculpture blends form and proportions, painting uses shapes and colors (or tonality), novels consist of the story and its narration. There must always be harmony between two values, and this brings about veracity in the work of art.
When two factors combine harmoniously, reality always appears. In God the Father we find goodness and beauty which give rise to the truth (God the Son), and through the union of goodness (or beauty) and truth (or reality) arises the perfect Spirit.
I believe it is vitally important to understand that beauty exists in all true reality, for what is real must be beautiful, for beauty is also reality. Only through the existence of beauty and reality is it possible to achieve a perfect spirit in society. When a city or a house is not built in a beautiful way, the country stops its development.
*Dialectics: Process of seeking the truth through dialogue between two real elements.
From: KEPPE, Norberto da Rocha. Sociopatologia. São Paulo: Editora Proton, 2002.
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Reflection:
Do you realize that the sense of aesthetics is in the essence of all human beings?
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