Many people expect art and beauty to be synonymous.
Truth, while as elusive as beauty, is generally more convincing. She is one who does not believe in her superiority by virtue of birthright, health, education, or welfare - by religion, technology, lent, or insight. She is capable of loving, envying, even aspiring to the level of existence of these people because she is aware that their lack of material possessions, lack of power, does not indicate significance, but instead, a potentially more real awareness of existence. The closeness of her subjects to the earth gives them an essential claim to a simpler view of the facts of life. This is not the idealizing of the noble sage, but rather the awareness that plainness is the stripping away of the padding of culture.