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In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. ✨ Aristotle, Demetrius (of Phaleron), Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Allen Moxon (1934). Aristotle's Poetics: Demetrius: On Style, and Selections from Aristotle's Rhetoric, Together with Hobbes' Digest and Horace's Ars Poetica
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