the beautiful line

What is it about a line that makes it beautiful?? I was pondering what it is that makes you stop and say "This is a beautiful line on which to build a whole painting."

Is it that it reminds you of something you love? Or is it something deeper and a part of our essence that is longing to be released. Is that line reflecting infinity.

It is hard to put into words a diaphanous dream. You can see it and feel it but it is hard to define in hard edge words.

A beautiful line is what I am painting all day to find. Without one beautiful line the entire painting feels dead.

So the beautiful line is life, it is breath, it is depth. It is the reason all painters paint and all writers write and all musicians compose. Everyone is looking for that certain something that transcends time.

Our entire career hangs in the balance of finding a beautiful line, the beautiful line, the true beautiful line.