He turned to me as peacefully as he did everything else and replied:

“Why build something ugly? That does not make any sense.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/gonzalonunez/p/beauty-is-irrefutable

I met a monk in the mountains of Medellín and he told me stories of heaven and beauty.

In images, beauty is the agency that causes visual pleasure in the beholder, and, since pleasure is the *true occasion for looking at anything*, any theory of images that is not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begs the question of art's efficacy and dooms itself to inconsequence.

- DAVE HICKEY