Engineering Quote by Alain de Botton

“It may happen that we do not always want the most beautiful form, but one of our own designing. ”

— Shirley Hibberd

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

— Noah Kerner

“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those…

— Alain de Botton

“Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused”

— Baruch Spinoza

“Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar. We should thus…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a building, just…

— Alain de Botton

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is a likely…

— Alain de Botton

“But from the perspective of aesthetics, I must be right and the universe must be wrong.”

— Liu Cixin

“Many people want to have a beautiful house, but we all already have one: The Earth itself!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“In a sense nothing is commonplace, for everything exists visibly by means of light and color, and light and color are the most fundamental…

— David Parkhurst The Painter In Oil