...here, too, we find curved lines holding a foremost place. Ruskin says, " The curvature of lines is felt to be beautiful by the pure instinct of every human mind." Looking to nature for examples of this beauty, we find it richly abundant in most vegetable forms,...

...colour itself depends more on this than on any other of its qualities, for gradation is to colours just what curvature is to lines, both being felt to...instinct of every human mind, and both, considered aa types, expressing the law of gradual change and progress in the human soul itself. What the difference...

...ordinary circumstances, without gradation. . . . The preciseness and pleasantness of the color itself depends more on this than on any other of its qualities,...gradual change and progress in the human soul itself." The building up of a tooth was in former years considered the highest expression of our art. So beautiful...

...pleasantness of color depends more on this than on any other of its qualities, for gradation is to colors just what curvature is to lines, both being felt to...law of gradual change and progress in the human soul itself.16 The Expressive Power of Line, Color, and Value Seurat's "Esthétique" (Appendix A) stresses...