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Aesthetics/Metaphysics
Is beauty a property of things, a feeling in us, or a sign of something higher?
Beautiful things participate in Beauty itself: eternal, unchanging, the object of eros's ascent.
Beauty consists in order, symmetry, and definiteness: features we apprehend in well-made things.
Beauty is the shining of Form through matter, and the soul becomes beautiful only by becoming like it.
Late have I loved thee, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new; all earthly beauty points beyond itself to God.
Beauty is what pleases when seen: it requires integrity, proportion, and clarity.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists only in the mind that contemplates them.
The beautiful is what pleases universally, without concept, through the free play of imagination and understanding.
Artistic beauty is the sensuous shining of the Idea: Spirit giving itself form in matter.
Beauty is a distraction; art's real task is to communicate feeling that unites people in love.
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