Rex Orange County Quotes

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Exactitude is not truth.

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged 'just so.'

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can take place.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?