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• The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
  -- Gustave Courbe...
• The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality.
  Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. -- Gustave Courbe...
• The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
  -- Goethe (1749-1832) -- Autobiography, Book xviii, Truth and Beauty...
• QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote.
  An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay....
• If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? -- Lily Tomli
• Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Most of us are attracted by beauty and repelled by ugliness -- one of the last of our prejudices.
  -- Kirk, "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" stardate 5630.7....
• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
  Albert Einstei...