Eugene Delacroix Quotes

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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

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

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

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

I think beauty can be everywhere.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

I abhor mere prettiness.

I think complexity is beautiful.

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven, and the more glorious that glory.