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Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one ca

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. – Leon Battista Alberti

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If you dont die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. – Anne Lamott

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Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold. – James Randolph Adams

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Beauty seen is never lost, Gods colors all are fast. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. – Gustave Courbet

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