Why are paintings by Vermeer beautiful?

we add to a determinate concept “a representation of the imagination that belongs to its presentation, but Dirac was famous for saying that certain theories should be taken seriously because they were “beautiful,” and Einstein talked of the “inner perfection” of a theory as an “indispensable criterion.”1which... aesthetically enlarges the concept itself in an unbounded way In short, certain concepts seek—and manage—less to finish a discussion or answer a determinate question, as to further provoke both thought and imagination and to raise an unbounded number of further questions. And these are the concepts we need and have to use to talk meaningfully about art.

View of Delft (1660–61): "He took a turbulent reality, and made it look like Heaven on earth."^[20]