I defer to Saul Leiter and Junichiro Tanizaki, two of the people whose quotes I keep on my PC desktop to remind me what I’m doing:
Saul Leiter:
I never thought of the urban environment as isolating. I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty. I realize that the search for beauty is not highly popular these days. Agony, misery and wretchedness, now these are worth perusing.
Junichiro Tanizaki:
“We find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the patterns of shadows, the light and darkness that one thing against another creates.”
Smoke and Mirrors 
Is Beauty still a thing?
I defer to Saul Leiter and Junichiro Tanizaki, two of the people whose quotes I keep on my PC desktop to remind me what I’m doing:
Saul Leiter:
I never thought of the urban environment as isolating. I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty. I realize that the search for beauty is not highly popular these days. Agony, misery and wretchedness, now these are worth perusing.
Junichiro Tanizaki:
“We find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the patterns of shadows, the light and darkness that one thing against another creates.”