Best Proportion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.”

Two Together Purpose Causes Waiting Voice Natural Wonder Hell Devil Murder Excellence Thee Proportion Admiration Cunning Traitor Treason Yoke

Book:King Henry V: Third Series

Source: King Henry V: Third Series

“An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.”

Feels Passion Proportion Accomplished Coquetry Coquette

Author:William Hazlitt

“In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.”

Should Opinion Effects Painting Approach Standards Excellent Proportion Relief

Author:Michelangelo

“Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender”

Mind Faults Guilty Proportion Offenders

Author:Juvenal

“Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.”

Eye Trials Proportion Squares Providence

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,

“A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.”

Thinking Art Matter Beautiful Emotion Industry Discipline Taste Skills Art Is Proportion Works Of Art Beautiful Thoughts

Book:The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

“The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.”

Form Animal Beauty Moral Virtue Amount Intellectual Proportion

Book:Of ideas of beauty

Source: Of ideas of beauty

“Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.”

People Knows Doe Literature Damage Proportion Salt Learning To Read

Author:Rebecca West

“You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the color and tone and texture... how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.”

Looks Light Faces Fall Figures Color Models Weight Tone Proportion Joints Texture Scrutinize

Author:Howard Pyle

“What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.”

Action Film Adventure Proportion

Author:Mel Gibson

“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

“Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.”

Eye Lines Objects Perspective Proportion Centre Outlines Plasticity

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.”

Men Giving Doe Notes Gender Proportion Disregard

Book:The Craftsman's Handbook

Source: The Craftsman's Handbook

“Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.”

Humans Form Growth Technology Communication Internet Solitude Direct Increase Phones Proportion Email Rapids Fax Rapid Growth

Author:Werner Herzog

“There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!”

Firsts Looks Bigs Light Values Force Strength Mass Add Details Impression Proportion Shade Big Things Vitality Vivid Spoil

Author:William Morris Hunt

“Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.”

Work Amount Available Useless Proportion Input

Author:Tim Ferriss

“The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.”

Way Light Space Knowing Teacher Week Changed Draws Shadow Negative Drawing Proportion Not Knowing Portraits Space Between Sketching Light And Shadow Negative Space

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.”

Giving Matter Given Profit Satisfaction Proportion Merchants

Author:James Cash Penney

“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

“Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.”

Whole Results Building Harmony Height Proportion Agreement Length Width

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

“There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.”

Success Law Possibility Limits Increase Proportion Mastery

Author:Roger McDonald

“Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.”

People Humans States United United States Disaster Enormous Proportion

Author:Anne McLellan

“I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.”

“Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years.”

Ifs Giving Years Doe Reason Past Natural Economic Resources Guides Proportion Expenses Finite Supplies Scarce Natural Resources Past Experiences

Author:Julian Simon

“Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.”

Mind Children Certain Grows Rocks Greatness Difficulty Aim Proportion Wrestling Nurse Harsh Athletic Foster Children Stature Impediments Grappling

Author:Kobe Bryant

“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.”

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.”

Way Stars Nature Animal Eating Plant Killing Proportion Midst Quantity Harmonious

Book:STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.”

Inspirational Problem Ideals Direct Increase Distance Proportion Idealism Long Distance Idealist Idealism And Realism

Author:John Galsworthy

“In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.”