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“So the talking continued. And why not? Why should the conversation stop? For the sake of art? Ha. The art is to keep it going as long as it can.”
“Will there be beauty this time in the saying of things?”
“Ah, a difficult task. A real challenge! What is beauty?”
“I figure the mind that makes beauty must learn, not beauty but the transmission of what he sees as beautiful. It’s the transmission, the communication that is all.”
“A beautiful woman, a beautiful bridge, a beautiful tree are self-evident. But our expression and transmission of the simplicity of that beauty, that is something else.”
“Isn’t the self-evident enough? Why complicate it with transmission and expression?”
“Because we aren’t all Buddha’s. We can’t leave well enough alone. We must always be in there digging away, changing, probing, not allowing anything to stand still.”
“It sounds more like a disease or dysfunction than a necessity.”
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