Classical Hellenistic Architecture and Art History

"And he who would proceed rightly should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms and first, if directed by his instructor, to love one such form only—out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will himself perceive that the beauty of any bodily form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if beauty in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize that the beauty in all visible forms is one and the same!"