Quotes About Proportion

the natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller in this instance, who always proportions his stay at any place to the beauties, elegancies, and curiosities which it affords.

Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!

We still haven't seen any cars take advantage of the electric powertrain in terms of how you proportion an electric vehicle versus traditional vehicles. Yes there's electric cars, but they haven't really done it in a beautiful way.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature.

Your success in worldly life (sansar) is in proportion to your faith and truthfulness!

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

However, bullets are a bit like salt—often essential to bring out the best, but distasteful if overdone.

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

A blouse that hits at the hips or above will keep you from seeming shapeless in a flowy skirt.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

proportioned.

To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.

Remember—we seek a balance in all things.

as well balanced as an upturned pyramid.

The scales of equilibrium can be found in wilderness/

Too much falsely inflates. Too little underprepares.

Y si en un momento dado hubiese la misma proporción de felicidad e infelicidad en el mundo?

So if achieving balance is a lie, then what do you do? Counterbalance. Replace the word "balance" with "counterbalance" and what you experience makes sense. The things we presume to have balance are really just counterbalancing.