Marcus Vitruvius Pollio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Running #Water #Causes
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Citizens #Occupation #May
In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Baby #Wall #Rain
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Thinking #Finding The One #Names
Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Thinking #Crowns #Benefits
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Aunt #East #Earth
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Art #Children #Practice
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Drawing #Architecture #Architect
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Water #Balance #Elements
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Agreement #Height #Harmony
Commodity, firmness, delight...
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Delight #Architecture #Commodity
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Care #Architecture #Building
Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Air #Wind #Floating
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.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Taste #Dimensions #Appearance
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Consistency #Details #Arise
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Mirrors #Law #Perfection
A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Taken #Design
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Medicine #Heaven #Attention
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.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Views #Order #Design
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Art #Practice #Want
From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Wall #Annoyed #Enemy
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#Latin #Greek #Musical

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