Beauty

As for what he says about beauty, Joyce make use of an old definition creeated by Thomas Aquinas, translating from latin as 'Three things are needed for beauty, wholeness, harmony and radiance'. When he talks about wholeness, the author means the need for the observer to define what is the objected that he is analysing and ignore everything else, you must notice it as a whole. Harmony is seen when the artist perceive all the parts that form the whole observed before, with each tiny structure and how these little pieces connect with each other to compose the object. The third element of beauty is also the most complex to understand and define. Radiance is the artist's way to understand the object, how it is reflected on his mind, imprinted on his soul. This can only be obtained when the observer clearly sees the two previous elements of beauty on the object, meaning that the artist need to understand both the whole as he perceive it's harmony.