The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
In nature there are few sharp lines.
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.