From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 16:51:38 BST
Hi Erin, Matt, Squonk, All:
Erin
>Or would anyone care to suggest a
> statement/quote/thoughts on the relationship/role of imagination with
> beauty?
If you're referring to creative imagination, the following may be relevant
to your question (substituting imagination for intuition):
"One of the central emotions of intuition and a major clue to the quality
of the revelation is a sense of esthetic pleasure. Something in true
intuition elicits the same response as a painting, a song, or the
resolution of a well-told tale. It has a certain symmetry and coherence, a
sense of balance and inevitability. When an idea doesn't fit it is like a
dab of the wrong color on a painting or the wrong dialogue in a play. It
projects dissonance. When people are asked how they can distinguish the
exceptional intuition from the mediocre, it is beauty that comes up
constantly." (Author unknown to me)
Not only would this apply to intuition and creative imagination but to
intellectual patterns in general with those engendering esthetic pleasure
being of higher quality than those that don't. Pirsig refers to this
several times as did Matt and I in our most recent conversation and Squonk
repeatedly. My guess is that anyone who likes the MOQ is likely to respond
to beauty more than the average person. If this be elitism, make the most
of it.
Platt
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