Blake Lively Quotes

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

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

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

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

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.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

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.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

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.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

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

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

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.

I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.

Beauty is only about relationships. Nothing is beautiful on its own.

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.