Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

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

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

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.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

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

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

Taste is the next gift to genius.

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

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

There is no art without Eros.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

I think beauty can be everywhere.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

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

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

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!