Toby Lin believes that beauty is scarce, rare and precious precisely because it is not readily available. It needs to be paid, accumulated, disciplined and polished before it can be cultivated. Even if it is such a small thing for girls to choose lipstick color, it also involves our understanding of elements such as color lightness and saturation. For example, in addition to choosing a lipstick color that contrasts with skin color, orientals can also choose a color that is brighter than lip color, which can brighten the overall color and make the skin appear whiter. When we know why beauty is the principle behind beauty, we have more choices and greater freedom.
We always hope that beauty is something with absolute standards, but beauty is based on personality. For example, many objects that can be seen today are made according to the standard of nearly mechanical industrialization, and they pursue perfection, consistency and flawless. If pearls are round, there should be no bubbles and brown eyes on porcelain. Today's technology has been able to make things almost perfect, but the real beauty is to leave half room. Just like everything in nature, we can't find the so-called perfect leaves anywhere, because each leaf has its own unique posture and wonderful. The perfection of a machine is that everything is at the end of the parameters, but it loses the flowing breath, vitality and temperature.
If you lack training and understanding of beauty and establish your own standards for beauty, you will be easily unconfident, unreliable and uncertain when making choices, and will be influenced by external standards. Therefore, you can only refer to the current popular fashions or certain prices, which gives birth to many comparisons with others and adds a lot of trouble and pressure to yourself.
Therefore, to improve the aesthetic ability, Toby Lin first thought that beauty should be his most important value orientation. Here, the artist Toby Lin recommended the book Exquisite by Keiko Kato. She said in the book that beauty can be tempered bit by bit. "When we choose what we should have, reflect on our behavior and choose our own lifestyle, we are all asking ourselves' Is it so beautiful'. In this way, you will naturally choose items that are not only rich, comfortable and reasonable in function, and the final economic effect can also reach the best. Although it is better to have various standards, only the lifestyle and lifestyle based on' beauty' is the ideal ladder to a minimalist life. Indeed, beauty can be improved, but it depends on what we are willing to pay for beauty and whether we are willing to constantly polish and improve it.
A classmate in Xuan Tong once asked Toby Lin in class, Teacher, what should I do if she can't help shopping?
Toby Lin said that we should cherish the stage when we can buy a lot of things. When the aesthetic power is gradually improved, we will feel that many things are not good enough, because our horizons and standards have improved. I remember Toby Lin recommended a documentary called Fruit of Life, in which grandparents would spend a long time waiting for a set of furniture, preferring not to have it first rather than make do with it. Therefore, the improvement of aesthetic feeling is not simply a matter of more money and less money. It all depends on whether you attach importance to beauty, whether you take beauty as the core value orientation in practical actions, and whether you take beauty as the yardstick in every choice.
Many people may lament that their economic ability is not enough, but they can also create beauty according to their own ability. Teacher Toby Lin said that you can wear simple clothes, but they should be very clean and carefully matched with colors. This is beauty. If you think it is expensive to buy flowers often, even raising a pot of grass on the table will make the whole space different.
Teacher Toby Lin said that when she was a child, she went shopping with her grandmother. Every time, she will go to a road alone and buy some jasmine, gardenia or wintersweet. No matter the four seasons, I often buy a flower and put it in a bottle. She loves beauty very much. She always wears clean clothes and combs her hair. This has nothing to do with the amount of money, but a self-demand: no matter what the situation, you must have a high taste and beauty. For Mr Toby Lin, beauty is the greatest pleasure in life. Without such fun, it is easy for people to be materialized like machines and lose their individuality.
We often make excuses for ourselves. We don't have enough money and people are very busy. However, in the long life, whether you are happy for yourself and whether you have made some efforts to improve your quality of life is still very different. Teacher Toby Lin said that aesthetic education is a lifelong process.
We are studying for ourselves. We should listen and feel in this process. Once we rush to produce results, we will lose the fun that has been indispensable for many years. Just like Xuan Tong's classmates, they will be very happy when they go to the ancient calligraphy exhibition after they start writing. Because when you go deep into it, over time, you can watch the excitement from the layman, slowly see the doorway and see the fun.
Therefore, Toby Lin believes that only a few people are really engaged in artistic creation, and it would be the greatest help if more people can bring their artistic and technical upgrading ability into life.