We collage ourselves into being...

I have time to think. That is great, the greatest luxury. I have time to be.

"a guide to beautiful things"

aesthetics is also the means by which the viewer is trained to view those things. Aesthetics, then, produces the viewer before and while it catalogues what is to be viewed (beautifully), and trains the viewer as cataloguer of what constitutes art.

[homes] as places which express one's life, directly and simply; the connection between the vitality of the people and the shape of their homes