Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.

- Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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

- Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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 harmoni…

- Johann Joachim Winckelmann

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

- 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 str…

- Johann Joachim Winckelmann