Proportion Quotes

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Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender — Juvenal
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. — John Milton
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline… — Evelyn Waugh
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays… — Henri Matisse
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it. — John Ruskin
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered… — Rebecca West
You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for… — Howard Pyle
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure. — Hannah More
What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions. — Mel Gibson
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion,… — Camille Paglia
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his… — Henry George
Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for… — Cennino Cennini
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those… — Eugene Delacroix
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will… — Werner Herzog
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add… — William Morris Hunt
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available. — Tim Ferriss
The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In… — Daniel H. Pink
Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion… — James Cash Penney
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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