Monday, July 18, 2005
Defining beauty
From Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", Random House 1998 paperback edition, page 72:
"(T)hree things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in fact we call beautiful those things of definite colour ... (T)he sight of the beautiful implies peace, and ... our appetite is calmed similarly by peacefulness, by the good and by the beautiful ... "
