Jerome, mid-30s, MTA transit worker, NYC 09MAY07

Varsity Aesthete: What is beautiful to you?
Jerome: Something new and different.
VA: How do you react to beauty?
J: Stare, fantasize, imagine.
VA: How often do you experience beauty?
J: I don't know.

Eleven years ago...

...I bought this issue of Interview and knew I wasn't alone.

Inside, is a page of arty celebrities describing in a sentence or two what beauty is for them. There is such passion and intimacy in those lines. It was so good to know that people were thinking this way--cataloging what stirs their souls.