Kerry James Marshall Quotes

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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!

I think complexity is beautiful.

I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

Form follows beauty.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Art is when things appear rounded.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

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.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.