T. J. Miller Quotes

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

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.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

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

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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.

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!

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.

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

My legs are long but my body is too short.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

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

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing. The other is seated, and the third is lying down... Of the three poses, the reclining figure gives the most freedom, compositionally and spatially.

While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the body was balanced with the lower part, an A-line skirt to minimize hips or shoulder pads if a client was smaller on top. I was training my eye to create balance.

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.