Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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by Johann Joachim Winckelmann Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wellness and Beauty)
Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.
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Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.
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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
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The one way for us to become great, perhaps inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.
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