Hey, Christopher--
I came up with a few interesting questions, and I wanted your opinion.. Real work requires a steady hand, a deft eye, and a sure heart.. However, only the last is required to find beauty. And while the others may seek to capture it, like so many things in life, beauty cannot exist in captivity.. What, then, of our conceptions of people and things in this world, which we deem beautiful? Can the mind, the heart, truly perceive beauty? Do we see, if not merely ourselves, images robbed of vitality.. If I am to call a person beautiful because her reflection is so, then I am justified. And even still, the only true beauty that we may receive (and the only such that can be possessed) is our own beauty, which belongs to and within each of us.
What say you?