Shane Carruth Quotes

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

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

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

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

Order is the greatest grace.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

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

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Nature is perfect.

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.

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.

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

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

I think complexity is beautiful.

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.

Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.