Electing Vuillard, the sedate, bourgeois intimist, in place of Cezanne as patron of an alternative modernist tradition was in keeping with his small-is-beautiful philosophy.
David Ansen of Newsweek said, "While one respects the filmmaker's small-is-beautiful philosophy, this story may indeed be too small for its britches.... Beresford's nice little movie seems so afraid to make a false move that it runs the danger of not moving at all".
But most of all, he shined in the midst of a city that truly framed his beautiful life philosophy and embraced him wholeheartedly, along with his delightful cook and friend Nada Saber.
"But it is a dream, beautiful only as philosophy".
"Small is beautiful" is the philosophy of the family that runs this city-centre B&B, and they're right.
In interviews, Brown has said he was tempted to join the Masons, calling their philosophy a "beautiful blueprint for human spirituality".
However, there have been reports that Guardiola sees the prospect of succeeding Wenger and continuing his methods of developing players and a philosophy of beautiful football as an attractive one.
Silver Lining is available on the Philosophy Is Beautiful Web site (where browsers can also study Ms. Hornig's celebrity clients like Cameron Diaz and Hayden Panettiere) and at the Shop at the Cooper-Hewitt.
"At Promises, you know, we built a beautiful place under the philosophy of 'Let's seduce them into treatment; why punish them by having them go to a dump?' " That philosophy represented a departure from traditional methods of rehab, even for celebrities.
