I often look at the world as though I’m peering through a frame. As I’m looking, in my mind’s eye I have a rectangular frame around the subject, seeing what seems to fit together well, and what’s extraneous or distracting. And as I’m doing this, I’m keenly tuned into how I’m feeling, if something is exciting, or affecting me emotionally.

Beauty will save the world because it saves us from losing sight of the exquisite unnameable quality that fills us when we are exposed to it, and we pay attention.