You think ‘great’ is right next door. It’s not. It’s in another country.
We do not undertake analysis of works because we want to copy them. We investigate the methods by which another has created his work, in order to set ourselves in motion.
The more the form of a thing seems to come from a single impulse, the more it is euphoric; there lies in the immediate and, if one may say so, uncomposed form the joy of a supernatural unity.
Essay: Arcimboldo: Rhetor and Magician
Simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation.