Beauty by Mistake

01Aug07

‘Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We’ve always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That’s what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It’s unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry.’ – Franz to Sabina in UL of B

can we really grasp unintentional art??? or do we just sit and be awestruck by it??

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