#BEAUTY ISN T SKIN DEEP MOVIE#
There’s the ideal beauty of movie stars and advertising models, the beauty-game ideal, which changes its rules all the time and from place to place, and is never entirely true. There’s the ideal beauty of youth and health, which never really changes, and is always true. There is a person there who isn’t only what he looks like, and to find him and know him I have to look through, look in, look deep. Waist and all.īut all the same, there’s something about me that doesn’t change, hasn’t changed, through all the remarkable, exciting, alarming, and disappointing transformations my body has gone through. I want to know where I begin and end, what size I am, and what suits me. Who I am is certainly part of how I look and vice versa. They look in the mirror - that is me? Who’s me?Īnd then it happens again, when you’re 60 or 70. And it’s such a tremendous change that it’s no wonder a lot of adolescents don’t know who they are.
More and more clearly it has to do with what shines through those gnarly faces and bodies.Ī child’s body is easy to live in.
#BEAUTY ISN T SKIN DEEP FREE#
For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young. Some of these people I consider to be very beautiful, and others I don’t. The older I get, the more clearly I see that and enjoy it.Īnd yet I look at men and women my age and older, and their scalps and knuckles and spots and bulges, though various and interesting, don’t affect what I think of them. The beauty ideal is always a youthful one. One rule of the game, in most times and places, is that it’s the young who are beautiful. Most of the time, I just play the game myself in a very small way, buying a new sweater, feeling happy about a haircut. I hate it when I see it making people so self-dissatisfied that they starve and deform and poison themselves. I resent the beauty game when I see it controlled by people who grab fortunes from it and don’t care who they hurt. There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment. What kind of body is that for a man of 50 or a woman of any age? “Perfect”? What’s perfect? A black cat on a white cushion, a white cat on a black one. Perfection is “lean” and “taut” and “hard” - like a boy athlete of 17, a girl gymnast of 12. He inhabits his body as fully as a child does, but much more knowingly. He keeps it as nearly perfect as he can, because his body is his instrument, his medium, how he makes a living, and what he makes art with. It is endearingly funny, but it was also simply true: the dancer’s body is almost perfect. What dancers look like is, after all, what they do.
The most extreme example of this ignorance must be the people who design the seats on airplanes.Īt the other extreme, the people who have the most accurate, vivid sense of their own appearance may be dancers. Please check our Privacy Policy.A lot of us humans are like dogs: we really don’t know what size we are, how we’re shaped or what we look like. Please note that this site uses cookies to personalise content and adverts, to provide social media features, and to analyse web traffic. No matter if you're doing a research or just exploring sayings by famous people. Quotlr helps you to improve your life, to achieve inner peace and happiness by reading motivational quotes. Meaningful Quotes - Popular Authors - Quote Topics - Picture Quotes
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