A Humility of Aesthetics

Humility is derived, I am told by reliable sources, from the Latin word humilitas or something classical-sounding of that nature. In this context it is, I presume, fitting to talk of 'persons' because as human beings we are essentially personal beings. So for a person to be humble means not that he or she fashions an expressive cloak of humility about them so that people may exclaim how humble that lad is. Nor does it mean to behave in such wise that people may assert that he is proud. It simply means that they are grounded in the reality - they are what they are before God, which is the only accurate perception of the reality of themselves.

Could be such a thing as a humility of aesthetics, where the aesthetic nature of a text is grounded in reality, and does not aspire to be what it is is not? Imagine a new wave of art that is just what it is, aspiring to describe only the objective realities of the world that really exist, and not subjectively perceived man-made realities. Imagine an art that is infinitely imaginative and is not too less nor too more in relation to the reality it mimics. Imagine an art that artistically and imaginatively and aesthetically portrays true reality in its sheer beauty. Imagine an art, imagine stories, novels, plays, paintings, poems, sculptures that impossibly portray God in all His sheer uncapturable Beauty. Imagine an art that is aesthetically humble and grounded in a reality so beautiful. Imagine true art. Imagine the impossible. And make it come true. Start creating. Start now.