Author: Vitruvius

Quotes

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

- Vitruvius

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

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

- Vitruvius

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

- Vitruvius

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

- Vitruvius

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

- Vitruvius

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.

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.

- Vitruvius

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