Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God.
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Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God.
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.
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.
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
The one way for us to become great, perhaps inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.