The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
Interpretation
True beauty often exists in plain sight and needs a mindful perspective to be appreciated.
In this quote, Vik Muniz emphasizes that the most remarkable and beautiful aspects of life often occur in our immediate surroundings, yet we frequently overlook them. By encouraging an intentional and attentive gaze, he suggests that we can discover the artistry and wonder that is already present in our daily experiences.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about appreciating the little things in life.
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?
Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.
All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give._x000D_ _x000D_ For we that live to please must please to live.
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