Johann Joachim Winckelmann Quotes

• Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Beauty, Two, Simplicity

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• The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Greek, Way, Ifs

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• Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Color, Should Have, Essence

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• Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Beautiful, Essence, Grace

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• Art is the daughter of pleasure.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Daughter, Art, Pleasure

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