When all others had succumbed to the fascinations of corporal decoration, the Priests and the Women alone still remained pure from the pollution of paint.
Immoral, licentious, anarchical, unscientific — call them by what names you will — yet, from an aesthetic point of view, those ancient days of the Colour Revolt were the glorious childhood of Art in Flatland — a childhood, alas, that never ripened into manhood, nor even reached the blossom of youth. To live was then in itself a delight, because living implied seeing.


Chapter 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) - PART I: THIS WORLD

Edwin Abbott Abbott Quotes

When all others had succumbed to the fascinations of corporal decoration, the Priests and the Women alone still remained pure from the pollution of...

When all others had succumbed to the fascinations of corporal decoration, the Priests and the Women alone still remained pure from the pollution of...

When all others had succumbed to the fascinations of corporal decoration, the Priests and the Women alone still remained pure from the pollution of...

When all others had succumbed to the fascinations of corporal decoration, the Priests and the Women alone still remained pure from the pollution of...