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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. -- Arne Jacobsen
I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown. -- Bayard Taylor
khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'. -- Cassandra Clare
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. -- C. A. Bartol
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. -- Thomas Starr King
The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly. -- Matthew Arnold
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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