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“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

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Author:John Walford

“How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?”

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Book:Red Mars

Source: Red Mars

“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”

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Author:Christopher Morley

“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.”

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Book:Modern Painters (Complete)

Source: Modern Painters (Complete)

“Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe”

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Author:Gabriela Mistral

“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.”

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Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.”

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Author:Junichiro Tanizaki