Cute might be thought of as a watered-down version of pretty; which is a watered-down version of beautiful; which is a watered-down version of sublime; which is a watered-down version of terrifying. In this regard, the cute is akin to the ridiculous, which is a watered-down version of the absurd, which is again a watered-down version of that which terrifies.
FRANCES RICHARD. Fifteen theses on the cute
From Cabinet magazine A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture Animals issue
via Apothecary's Drawer
(I've been musing out loud on cute and ridiculous so this quote jumped out, but there is such good reading in the archives here...)
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