Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
Eugene Delacroix
quality emotions simplicity work beauty
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
language
I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.
progress
The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.
places
He is the least mannered and consequently the most varied of artists. Mannered talents have but one bias, one usage only. They are more apt to follow the impulse of the hand than to control it. Those that are less mannered must be more varied, for they continually respond to genuine emotion.
talent emotions
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
absence
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
simplicity
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