> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Octavio Paz > Reference:: Octavio Paz _In Praise of Hands: Contemporary Crafts of the World_ Toronto: World Crafts Council, 1974 > Date:: 1974 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Aesthetic value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft beautifies our everyday life]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > For Octavio Paz, the use reveals the beauty. ### Highlights Its beauty is corporal: I see it, I touch it, I smell it, I hear it. If it is empty, it must be filled; if it is full, it must be emptied. glass jug, a wicker basket, a coarse muslin huipil, a wooden serving dish: beautiful objects, not despite their usefulness but because of it. Their beauty is simply an inherent part of them, like the perfume and the color of flowers. It is inseparable from their function: they are beautiful things because they are useful things.