“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Beauty
Essays (1625)
“Proportion is the heart of beauty.”
— Ken Follett, book The Pillars of the Earth
Source: The Pillars of the Earth
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