Quotes About Balance

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

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

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.

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

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

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

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

I'm a minimalist when it comes to design.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

design is so important because chaos is so hard

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.

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