Timeless Beauty - in the Arts & Everyday Life

John Lane

John Lane argues that once people were instinctively tuned to the beautiful. In those distant days before the advent of the motor car and the washing machine, the electric toothbrush and the wheel, craftsmen and musicians, masons and poets, painters and dancers, simply did not know how to make an ugly thing. He believes that beauty is the nourishment of the soul. It is something that gives us dignity as a species