Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God. Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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
The beauty of the deities in their virile age consists in the combination of the strength of mature years and the joyfulness of youth… Johann Joachim Winckelmann
The only way for us to become great and, if possible, inimitable, lies in the imitation of the Greeks. Johann Joachim Winckelmann