Valentino Garavani Quotes

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

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 each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

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

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Music is powerful.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing the emotions, all the problems will vanish.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it, understanding, intuitively perhaps, that the words are just right. It's not a matter of even context - delight is not limited to scenes or descriptions of happiness or beauty - but of aesthetic appreciation of the thing itself. As a reader, I find it's that moment when I want to stop reading, and also that moment when I know I can't. Delight is that it's what takes me by surprise and reminds me why I love the literary arts above all others.

Matt Wilson, the colorist, has this great palate [in Paper Girls] that brings up all these emotions and this feel of the '80s without being actually as kind of as bright and primary as it could have been.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.