Michelangelo BuonarrotiBeauty is the purgation of superfluities.
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. According to The New York Times, the saying goes back to the ancient Greek poet Antipater of Tarsus, who said in a poem: "Those who see a statue and go at once to the library, and read a good book, and come away from there with understanding, are not beautiful. They have been purged of superfluities."
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