“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”
“Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed; there is a kind of intellectual remoteness necessary for the comprehension of any great work in its full design and its true proportions; a close approach shews the smaller niceties, but the beauty of the whole is discerned no longer.”
“For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.”