“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“The materials, the colors, were like friendship and love, both wanting to fulfill themselves in the most beautiful form.”
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