There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion
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| - | "[[There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion]]" is a phrase by [[Francis Bacon]] first published in his [[aesthetics]] essay ''[[Of Beauty]]''[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_%28Francis_Bacon%29/Of_Beauty]. | + | "[[There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion]]" is a dictum by [[Francis Bacon]] first published in his [[aesthetics]] essay "[[Of Beauty]]". |
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| - | [[Poe]] was fond of quoting it and [[Baudelaire]] made it his own via Poe in the [[motto]] "[[le beau est toujours bizarre]]". | + | |
| + | [[Edgar Allan Poe]] was fond of quoting it and [[Charles Baudelaire]] made it his own in the [[motto]] "[[le beau est toujours bizarre]]". | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Beauty]] | ||
| + | *[[Cult of ugliness]] | ||
| + | *[[Proportion]] | ||
| + | *[[Strange]] | ||
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"There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion" is a dictum by Francis Bacon first published in his aesthetics essay "Of Beauty".
Edgar Allan Poe was fond of quoting it and Charles Baudelaire made it his own in the motto "le beau est toujours bizarre".
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