The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known

"That man wanted to make a world that was attractively twisted and straight is to be seen in the old Greek approaches to the column.  Look (Art Through the Ages, page 130) at "The Upper Part of a Column from the Eastern Porch of the Erechtheum." There is such a desire on the part of the artist of years ago to be simple; also ornate. Lines go up and down; they revolve into themselves, too. And little decorative effects defy the severity of the Hellenic vertical."