Quotes About Proportion

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

Bacon had done it, and Campanella had said, with Baconian pithiness, Tantum possumus quantum scimus —"Our power is proportioned to our knowledge." Perhaps

The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation, but for the most part they have been and are altogether noxious.

5/11 is about half. 217 is about 200.

only one-third

What I dream of is an art of balance.

The logic of war is power, and power has no inherent limit. The logic of peace is proportion, and proportion implies limitation.

There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his elemental life as a unit in the human swarm, in which he must inevitably obey the laws laid down for him.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

nothing other than the harmony of the individual limbs and parts, so that nothing can be added or taken away without damaging it.

Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

The Lord gave us power in proportion to the work to be done, and strength according to the race set before us, and grace and help as our needs required.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.

Balance is overrated.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.

Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.

How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept!

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion. – Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Chapter II, Part II

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.