You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. -Diane Arbus
The surface read is sometimes not the most interesting. Often it is our own subtext that is the best part of a story. But we need to be catapulted toward those inner comments.
Diane Arbus said that? Interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think there's a truth to that. But flaws are what make people beautiful--truly beautiful, I think. Forget "pretty", beauty is, um...who was it, Francis Bacon, yes? "There is no perfect beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
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I don't know why I find that so hilarious.
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteI do believe that was Diane Arbus’ point, especially given some of her photo subjects. That the ‘flaw’ is indeed the most interesting and possibly the most beautiful.-- that was the ‘old Bacon’, yes? , not the painter.