Architecture Quote by Edith Wharton

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

— Ken Follett

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is…

— Clement Greenberg

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,…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“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

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing.…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

If you think about for example, proportionality and beauty, things like that, these seem to be some kind of representations of a kind of…

— Peter Adamson

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

— Austin O'Malley

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.”

— Stephen M. Barr

Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE.

— Anonymous

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...

— Winston Churchill