Lisi Harrison Quotes

Beauty rests on necessities.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock. That's beautiful to me. But also nature. A person can be beautiful as well. And beauty is also defined as 'untouched'. Indeed, that's an ideal: that we humans are untouched and therefore beautiful.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

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

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

The good is the beautiful.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful.

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

There is a saying in Bali: "We have no art. We do everything as beautifully as possible." This reflects my philosophy of practice. I try to remember daily what a gift it is to have the privilege of living in this wondrous world.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

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.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

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