John Tyler Bonner Quotes

Size counts. That's all.

The primary factor is proportions.

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

The body is the substance of the stone.

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

DC is a big boy, as tall as he is wide.

It's not about size, it's a science.

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!

Mathematics is the language of size.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

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.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.