...perceptions on behalf of his class. He later expressed this process in the form of an aesthetic paradox: "/ never saw an ugly thing in my life; for let the form...shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." 10S Simultaneously, we know that he preferred painting landscape to people, that he despised the "rabble,"...

..."Brother Sun and Sister Moon." Likewise, the British painter John Constable sees beauty everywhere: "I never saw an ugly thing in my life, for let the...light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."11 In other words, whatever exists has beauty, because whatever has being has form and whatever...

...engraving of a house, called it an ugly thing, he [Constable] said, 'No, madam, there is nothing ugly; / never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form...shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. It is perspective which improves the form of this.' (CR Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable,...

...painter Constable knew, that beautv lies in wait everywhere: "There is nothing ugly; / never sw an 1y/r thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it mav, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."'' To represent beauty mav be...

...many different types of frames; but the frame, more than the actual view, determines the effect. / never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form...shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. — John Constable To frame your views, take your camera outside. Looking around your yard through...

...wait everywhere: "There is nothing ugly; / never saw an ugly thing in my life: tor let the form ot an object be what it may,— light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."17 To represent beauty may be to repAnd it may be the language with which we talk about...

...our own problems in a similar way, viewing them obliquely rather than head on. 61 Beautiful things "I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - perspective, light and shade will always make it beautifui" )OHN CON5TARLE (1776-1637) 62 A global...

...posts, and brickwork, l love such things..." He stressed the point further, "There is nothing ugly; l never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an oblect be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." ln photography,...

...itself be delightful though what it represents might not be.21 Hence John Constable's statement that 'there is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing...shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful'." But ugliness, grotesquely, incoherence and the disgusting are as such held to be always aesthetically...

...glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods. -Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644) I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the...shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. -John Constable (1776 - 1837) Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant...