Johann Joachim Winckelmann Quotes
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Art is the daughter of pleasure.
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Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.
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Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.
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The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.
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Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Born: December 9, 1717
- Died: June 8, 1768
- Occupation: Art Historian