In his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig explores
the question of quality. No doubt I’ll bring it up again in this space, Inshala. He says that Quality is the properties of something which make the observer aware of himself, or something to that effect. And since I just couldn’t go on to bed tonight, knowing that the image in the last post was the last one posted here – that it might stick hard in your consciousness of quality, I offer Rembrandt’s Apostle Paul.


Now tell me, doesn’t that visage make you more aware of yourself? Doesn’t the
world make more sense with this one hanging on a wall somewhere, than with the
other? There is a difference between art and crap.