Christopher Wren Quotes

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

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

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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

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

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye to the point where I stop dead in my tracks to capture whatever it is that I've seen.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

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.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.