Rogier van der Heide Quotes

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye to the point where I stop dead in my tracks to capture whatever it is that I've seen.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.