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Proportion Quotes by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
- Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it…
- Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and,…
- Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
- 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.
- 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…
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- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake
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