Best beauty & symmetry Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.”

Humans Faces Certain Sides Lines Perfect Beauty Source All Things Branches Leafs Deficiency Symmetry Human Faces Irregularity Signs Of Life

Book:On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].

Source: On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].

“A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.”

Source: Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers

“Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.”

Play Light Beauty Symmetry

Author:Plotinus

“We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.”

Knows May Persons Secret Beauty Air Agree Features Conformity Symmetry Complexion Agreeableness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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.”

Giving Nature Beauty Objects Limits Weapons Proportion Melting Freeze Halt Symmetry Flux

Author:Camille Paglia

“A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.”

Looks Doe Matter Pain Beautiful Faces Silence Beauty Mystery Stress Tragedy Add Features Inward Symmetry

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces