This podcast was amazing and truly inspiring, I am an artist and I try my best to glorify God through my work, thank you for reminding me how important good art is! 🙏🏼 God bless.

Thank you, gentlemen. Beauty is important. Very important. But simplicity itself can be beautiful. Cluttered isn't. Space itself can be beautiful. Even in the home. The space you are free to move in, to dance in, to pirouette in. Air to breathe. The blue sky is beautiful but it is just blue. A radiant blue. A radiant, royal blue light that can inform our mind to higher, finer realms, to strive for something more clean and innocent, immaculate and eternal. As for abstraction, EVERYTHING is understood or presented on some level of abstraction. Choose your level. We never arrive at the non-abstract. Even physical objects can be perceived/conceived/presented from very far away - blotches of colours - or closer and closer up until you get to the level of molecules, atoms, subatomic particles and probability waves. All "true" but all at some level of abstraction. The map is not the territory. A good map, a true map, a beautiful map, points you in the right direction. I would say that beauty is function. What are its workings? Where does it lead your focus, consciousness, understanding? To higher, brighter, more divine things - more hope and joy, grace and forgiveness - or to more squalid, hopeless, vengeful things? Tolstoy has an interesting little book called What is Art? Flowers are intrinsically beautiful even to the smallest child, not only shape and colour and scent, but also as something fresh and alive, blooming and blossoming. Something ethereal and ephemeral. Plastic flowers won't do it. The perceiving, prepared mind appreciates the beauty, resonates with it and is moved by it. Brutes and the vulgar and angry don't get it. The greedy and paranoid don't get it. The overly carnal don't get it. We have an intrinsic potential to appreciate the finer things but often it is an acquired taste - like the literature I was forced to read in high school and university. First I didn't like it but grew to like it and even love it. Same with some foods and music. Classical music and flowers filled my house growing up - thanks mom! The Holy Spirit filled my school - thanks nuns! Joy filled our car on family vacations - thanks dad! But more than that is the undifferentiated awe and wonder and unspeakable love for existence that far surpasses anything that science can model. Scientific models can be beautiful if they work. Mathematical equations also. Chess moves. An ice hockey team scoring a goal in a flurry of movements and passes. An openness to being without becoming too sophisticated and critical, stale and calcified. "And Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 18:3 Thank you, gentlemen, from a fellow Catholic in Amsterdam. 💐 🌹 🌷

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This is beautifully put and thought-provoking! Would love to have a conversation with you. You seem to have a great understanding of art.

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The function of the great cathedrals was/is to raise people's spirit, pointing at heaven, presenting beauty. The function of a throne is to signify sovereignty. The function of a crown is to signify authority. The function of music is not only a series of sounds. The function of mathematics is not only a series of numbers. The function of electricity is not only to move electrons but to turn on the lights so that I can see, turn on the toaster so thar I can warm my bread, turn on my iPad so that I can write this message. The function of a MAGA hat is not only to keep the sun off one's head but also to show support for Trump. Function in not only reduction to the lowest material or physiological or logical process, function has a spriritual, social, hierarchical aspect, to keep the whole healthy and growing and sustainable. Signs pointing to a preference and a prediction. Shorthand. An abstraction. A language. An expression of the LOGOS, that which makes sense, that which creates order out of chaos, that which reliably leads to eternal life. Nothing wrong with IKEA furniture. Nothing wrong with an aerodynamic airplane. There's something beautiful in the aerodynamic design itself and the flight of the well-designed and well-built airplane through all kinds of weather. One of the most beautiful artefacts of mankind is the 1945 RAF Spitfire. Form, indeed, does follow function."By their fruits, ye shall know them."

Beauty in women is objective. Too skinny and toned looks like a skinnier version of a man and have a harder time getting pregnant. A fat woman is a sign of a lack of self control and lazyness combined. Curvaceous women are objectively beautiful.