ATELIER JACQUES

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The Truly Beautiful

The most truly beautiful people are beautiful by virtue of what they behold interiorly - their thoughts, their actions, their character, the manner by which they carry themselves, and/or take care of their physical self. 

All hidden but powerful. 

In the same way, I do often wonder why I was arrested by the beauty of this structure and decided to capture it yesterday. (And to think this was merely the lower portion, the less ornate.)

What was it that drew me to this and not another building structure beside it? I think the answer is the same. It’s beautiful because it’s the outward expression of an inward attitude - the inner world of the hands which conceived and built. And still more, and certainly more acutely so, it is beautiful, truly by what it beholds.

“...paix sur la terre aux hommes de bonne volonté”