“Many people are trying to take beauty out of the world. Artists keep trying to put it back in.” -Gareth Williams
“Beauty will save the world.” -Dostoevsky
“There is, however, a certain peculiarity in the essence of beauty, a peculiarity in the status of art: namely, the convincingness of a true work of art is completely irrefutable and it forces even an opposing heart to surrender…Those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force – they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them.
So perhaps that ancient trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty is not simply an empty, faded formula as we thought in the days of our self-confident, materialistic youth? If the tops of these three trees converge, as the scholars maintained, but the too blatant, too direct stems of Truth and Goodness are crushed, cut down, not allowed through – then perhaps the fantastic, unpredictable, unexpected stems of Beauty will push through and soar TO THAT VERY SAME PLACE, and in so doing will fulfill the work of all three.” -excerpt from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s 1970 Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Looking for your life’s purpose?
Put beauty, joy and love back in the world everywhere you can.
There is no greater purpose or higher calling than this.
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