"A waterfall is a waterfall is a waterfall. Its appearance and significance, look and meaning, become identical, whereas usually they are seperate and have to be brought together by the one who is looking and questioning. Beauty's revelation is this fusion. Such a fusion changes one's spatial sense, or, rather, changes one's sense of Being in space.
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At the moment of revelation when appearance and meaning become identical, the space of physics and the seer's inner space coincide: momentarily and exceptionally the seer achieves an equality with the visible. To lose all sense of exclusion; to be at the center."
- John Berger, And our faces, my heart, brief as photos
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