Quotes About Balance

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

Grid systems in graphic design

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

Design is everything.

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.