Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
But the beauty of Einstein's equations for example is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.
Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually when people say you are beautiful it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking but all in harmony together.
And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.