What is the essence of “beauty”? For me, it keeps coming back to art.
I’ve always defined art as man’s reaction to the work of God.
In God’s work there is beauty and we want to replicate that somehow.
Whether it’s the photographer or a painter that sees the work of light
on something and they try to capture that – the filmmaker with light;
the designer in the theater, trying to craft and carve with light.
You try to capture the essence of that beauty which, like art,
connects us eventually back to God.
The things that allow us to recognize humanity in the world,
and God in our self, take us to an emotional place:
that’s what beauty is.
Aldo Billingslea, actor and professor of theater arts,
quoted in Signs of Life, by Rick Fabian
