The Analysis of Beauty

"The ear is as much offended with one even continued note, as the eye is with being fix'd to a point, or to the view of a dead wall.

"[3] In contrast, our senses find relief in discovering a certain amount of "sameness" within a varietal experience.

Intricacy is a strange principle in that it does not directly follow from the formal behaviour of a beautiful object.

Every difficulty in understanding or grasping the object enhances the pleasure of overcoming it, to continue the pursuit.

Quantity, finally, is associated with the notion of the sublime, which, when Hogarth's book appeared, was not yet entirely distinguished from the apprehension of beauty.

He recognises a great quantity to have an aesthetic effect on the beholder without the necessity of a varietal or fitting form.