“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.”
7 September 1854 (p. 252)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
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