Quotes About Proportion

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

My legs are long but my body is too short.

We must be equal to the largeness of things.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame.

If man had a sense of proportion, he would die of shame. His salvation was that he lived in denial.

The largest egg in comparison with the size of the bird is that of the little spotted kiwi. Its egg accounts for 26 percent of its own weight: the equivalent of a woman giving birth to a six-year-old child.

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

I didn't think they came any bigger than Hudson who was close to this size but not quite as big.

Pythagoras said that the universal Creator had formed two things in His own image: The first was the cosmic system with its myriads of suns, moons, and planets; the second was man, in whose nature the entire universe existed in miniature.

The beauty of the imagination is that it can discover such magnificent vastness inside a tiny space. Our culture is dominated by quantity. Even those who have plenty hunger for more and more. Everywhere around us, the reign of quantity extends and multiplies. Sadly the voyage of greed has all the urgency but no sense of destination. Desire becomes inflated and loses all sense of vision and proportion. When beauty becomes an acquisition it brings no delight.

This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have both aesthetic and mystic significance. That the Egyptians knew of it and used it seems certain.

Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape.

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life

Cuando una se acostumbra al horror, éste deja de verse, por tanto de existir. El horror mismo lleva a perder las proporciones del horror.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?