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“The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.”

Form Animal Beauty Moral Virtue Amount Intellectual Proportion

Book:Of ideas of beauty

Source: Of ideas of beauty

“In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.”

Humans Beautiful Beauty Havens Design Creation Garden Kingdoms Contemporary Proportion Invites Architect Transformed Efficient Partnership Majesty Aggressiveness Contemporary Life

Author:Luis Barragan

“Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.”

World Ends Beautiful Beauty This World Blame Useless Proportion Permission Beautiful Things Hammers Rubies Emeralds

Book:The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories

Source: The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories

“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.”

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

“True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.”

Faces Beauty Architecture Features Proportion

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

Art Happiness Science Beauty Design Sexuality Excellent Proportion Inner Beauty Strangeness

Author:Francis Bacon

“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”

Giving Nature Beauty Objects Limits Weapons Proportion Melting Freeze Halt Symmetry Flux

Author:Camille Paglia