“Eyes raised towards Heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“For the eye is always in search of beauty,”
— Vitruvius, book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book III, Chapter III, Sec. 13
Context: For the eye is always in search of beauty, and if we do not gratify its desire for pleasure by a proportionate enlargement in these measures, and thus make compensation for ocular deception, a clumsy and awkward appearance will be presented to the beholder.
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