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“If a teapot has been formed…if the work be beautiful, and if it conveys to the beholder the knowledge and refinement of an educated artist, then it is ridiculous to estimate its value as though the material of which it is composed were of grater worth than the amount of life, thought, and painstaking care expensed upon its production.”

“It has been said that the proportion of one to two is not so beautiful as that of one to three, and that this again is not so pleasant as three to five. Indeed, the law of proportion is this: the more difficult it is to detect the relation of part to part the more beautiful the proportion is.”