Daniel Burnham Quotes

I think complexity is beautiful.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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

Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

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

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Order is the greatest grace.

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

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.

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.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

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

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

Beauty rests on necessities.

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.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.