~ Every canvas, even if non-representational, that depends upon harmonious relationships of the three forces – color, volume and line – is a work of art. ~
~ Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony. ~
~ Color harmony is just one type of relationship found in a painting. It comes from the nuances of the light, like the atmosphere connecting everything in the subject. ~
~ With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. ~
~ Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. ~
~ A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. ~
~ Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole ~
~ Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~
~ They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain ~
~ There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this ~
~ And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres ~
~ One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life ~