"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods."
-Leon Battista Alberti
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"Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.“
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