Quotes about Proportion
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
- Corrie Ten Boom
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.
- Edith Wharton
In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.
- St. Cyprian
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
- Aristotle
Hence beauty consists in due proportion; for the senses delight in things duly proportioned, as in what is after their own kind---because even sense is a sort of reason, just as is every cognitive faculty. Now since knowledge is by assimilation, and similarity relates to form, beauty properly belongs to the nature of a formal cause.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 3: The universe, the present creation being supposed, cannot be better, on account of the most beautiful order given to things by God; in which the good of the universe consists. For if any one thing were bettered, the proportion of order would be destroyed; as if one string were stretched more than it ought to be, the melody of the harp would be destroyed.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.
- Oprah Winfrey
Don't use cannon to kill musquito.
- Confucius
Of the human form especially, it is so great it must never be made ridiculous . . . Exaggerations will be revenged in human physiology.
- Walt Whitman
"A merry laugh doeth good like a medicine," said Solomon a thousand years before Christ. And today if we laughed more we would need medicine less. Aye, if we mixed laughter, love and work in the right proportion, medicine would be but a dream of things that once were.
- Elbert Hubbard