Wesley Ruggles Quotes

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Form follows beauty.

I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.

I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

I love to look at women with good bones and good bodies in good clothes.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.