Christopher Alexander Quotes

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.

I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now.

The movement of many people through a building can be musical, if the movement is harmonious, rational, but full of life and feeling.

Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.

I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

Receiving and giving are opposite energies that are inextricably linked together in the natural flow of life, like inhaling and exhaling. If one aspect of that cycle doesn't function, the entire cycle ceases to function and the life force cannot move freely. If you can't inhale, you will soon have nothing to exhale, and before long, your body will be unable to continue living.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.

Everything is soul and flowering.

Love is at the Center of our being, and the calm, continuous pulsations of life are governed by Love.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't you? Oh well, you will tell me that what I write to you are only banalities.

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.