Quotes

Bacon
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness of proportion"

Boileau
"The sublime cannot be taught, and didactics are thus powerless in this respect; the sublime is not linked to rules that can be determined through poetics; the sublime only requires that the reader or listener have conceptual range, taste, and the ability to sense what everyone senses first."

Botton
"We glimpse in the beautiful object at a level of perfection that eludes us internally."

Kant
"The sublime may be described in this way: It is an object (of nature) the representation of which determines the mind to regard the elevation of nature beyond our reach as equivalent to a presentation of ideas"

"Sensible illusion artificially combined with ideas" -on painting

Poussin
"Painting is for the delectation of the eye."