Jim Crace Quotes

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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.

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.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

Form follows beauty.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

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

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.

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.

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!

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

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

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

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

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

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

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

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.