“<...> out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace.” — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation. — Marcelo Gleiser Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty... — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
The ancient traditions, even Christianity, say God is Love. There is symmetry here. The fundamental step where you get into this transcendent… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
“I’ve been the queen of symmetry and everything had to be in identical balance, no matter how you looked at it. But… — Taryn Leigh Copy Share Image
“In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Golden Ratio is a powerful mathematical constant woven into the very fabric of biology. It is the unique visual tension between comforting… — Darrin Crescenzi Copy Share Image
