Symmetry Quotes

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

Symmetry is for God, not for us.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

Why do we remember the past, but not the future?

Reality favors symmetry.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

The internet does not adhere to the inherent, necessary asymmetry of high-versus-low-art categorizations that we use in the cultural sector: in a banal sense, all photographs on the Web are orphans ready to be claimed.

The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

You can't chop down a symmetry