“Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once”
Aristotle
“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.”
Camille Paglia
“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.”
“Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
William Blake
“Symmetry is what we see at a glance”
Blaise Pascal
“Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.”
Charles Lamb
“As you're developing, all sorts of things come at you, like diseases and injury. If you're able to develop symmetry despite all of that, then that would indicate to others that you have what it takes to make a go of it in that environment.”
Lee Cronk
