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Full Idea
It is said that beauty cannot consist in organisation because, if it did, we would not be able to predicate beauty of totally simple objects.
Gist of Idea
If beauty needs organisation, then totally simple things can't be beautiful
Source
Richard Wollheim (Art and Its Objects [1968], 59)
Book Ref
Wollheim,Richard: 'Art and Its Objects' [Penguin 1975], p.158
A Reaction
[He says this idea originates in Plotinus] I'm struggling to think of an example of something which is 'totally' simple and beautiful. Maybe a patch of colour like the breast of a bullfinch?