Gertrude Stein greatly multiplies the places and incidents where beauty may be found. We tend to think beauty is only in attractive things, but it’s also in unattractive things, and we should look for it there. To not do so is to not really understand beauty:
If every one were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.
(Quoted from page 515 of Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Vintage Books, 1990.)
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