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“Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.”

Order Source Balance Clarity Greek Proportion Spares Egypt Abstraction Elegance Reduction Starks Simplification Classicism Condensation

Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.”

Body Water Loses Virtue Greater Balance Elements Property Proportion

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.”

Running Life Is Balance Proportion

Book:Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running

Source: Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running

“Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.”

Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare

“To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.”

Writing Kind Building Wall Balance Music Is Logic Miracle Raises Proportion Internals Construction Ladders Innate Scaffolding Under Construction

Author:Arthur Honegger

“We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.”

Courses Teacher Buddhism Balance Gains Proportion Enlightened Sense Of Humor Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.”

“Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?”

Humans Mean Ideas Ends Seems Form Balance Behavior Photography Notion Proportion Motivated Human Behavior

Author:James Nachtwey

“Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.”

Hard Play Crazy Hard Work Balance Illusion Myth Driving Pursuit Proportion Equations Life Balance Play Hard Work Hard Play Hard

Author:Danielle LaPorte