Beauty and ugliness, author: Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson

The process of "recognition" of the shape differs from our "perception" of this shape; the first is a short routine process, although necessary to understand external things while we move in this world; it is a method similar to commerce. As for the second, it is the opposite; because "perception" is activity related to aesthetic influence; when we truly delve into a shape or an object and perceive it, something more and beyond recognition processes occurs. We "perceive" the relationships of the elements that make up this shape; because our own dynamic experience appears in it; the activity we are talking about is our activity, and the process of perceiving the shape is a revival of the kinetic and emotional experience from the past; our past. Appreciating beauty makes us realize that we are alive in the right way; if we do not perceive beauty, we will not be truly alive, but only appear to be alive. Number of pages: 546