Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 72
el line onwhich the wheel rolls. Allsuch curves are of inferiorbeauty: and the curves winchare incapable of being com-pletely drawn, because, as inthe two cases above given, thelaw of their being supposesthem to proceed for ever intospace, are of a higher beauty. § 6. Thus, in the very… … Fig. 5. as the Mortal and Im- 36 LINES. mortal Curves; the one having an appointed term ofexistence, the other absolutely incomprehensible andendless, only to be seen or grasped during a certainmoment of their course. And it is found univer-sally that the class to which the human mind is at-tached…
Art · Aesthetics
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