Proportions Quotes

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. (Coco Chanel)
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. View quote
Christian Dior
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. View quote
David Hume
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. View quote
George Gershwin
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. View quote
Vitruvius
The truth [is in his paintings]... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings. View quote
Gerhard Richter
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false. View quote
Gerhard Richter
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. View quote
Ben Jonson
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities. View quote
John Muir
Order gives due measure to the members of a work considered separately, and symmetrical agreement to the proportions of the whole. It is an adjustment according to quantity. By this I mean the selection of modules from the members of the work itself and, starting from these individual parts of members, constructing the whole work to correspond. (Vitruvius)
When it appears that a work has been carried out sumptuously, the owner will be the person to be praised for the great outlay which ha has authorized; when delicately, the master workmen will be approved for his execution; but when proportions and symmetry lend it an imposing effect, then the glory of it will belong to the architect. View quote
Vitruvius
There is nothing to which an architect should devote more thought than to the exact proportions of his building with reference to a certain part selected as the standard. View quote
Vitruvius
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable. View quote
Stefan Zweig
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square. View quote
Luca Pacioli
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them. View quote
Isaac Newton
When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable. View quote
Rene Cassin
Every human mind you've ever looked at ... is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia. View quote
Fritz Haber
To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions. View quote
Charlton Heston
The primary factor is proportions. (Arne Jacobsen)
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. View quote
Charles Jencks
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen. View quote
David Wilkerson
Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon. View quote
Donnie Wahlberg