Proportion Quotes
837 quotes by 615 authors
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Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
— Juvenal
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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.
— John Milton
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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
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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
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
— John Ruskin
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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
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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
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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
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What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.
— Mel Gibson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
— Tim Ferriss
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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
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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
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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
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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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