L'Wren Scott Quotes

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.

Form follows beauty.

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

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.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

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

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

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

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!

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.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

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