Beautiful Quote by Moshe Safdie

“Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.”

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Beautiful Beauty Fitness Form Fulfillment Function Humanity Natural Nature Nature of man Perfect

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