Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

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.

You can't chop down a symmetry

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

I know there's a balance, I see it when I swing past.

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

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

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

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

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

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

I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.