“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter
Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art
“The interiorization of beauty presupposes nobility of soul and at the same time produces it.”
[2016, La conscience de l’Absolu, Hozhoni, 59, 978-2-37241-020-5]
God, Beauty
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Discipline and Punish (1977)
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(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Suze Robertson:) In 't najaar, october, November ben ik gemeenlijk in nl:Heeze aan 't werk, voor interieurstudies. Dat is een mooie, en de rustigste tijd; 't blad van de bomen [af!], waardoor zomers zoo'n groen licht in de binnenhuizen valt. In 't logement van de goede Saskia [Ciska].. ..ondervond ik dan altijd heel bizondere zorgen.
Source: 1900 - 1922, Onder de Menschen: Suze Robertson' (1912), p. 34
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Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
A donna né bellezza,
Né nobiltà, né gran fortuna basta,
Sì che di vero onor monti in altezza,
Se per nome e per opre non è casta.
Canto XLIII, stanza 84 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)