What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.
Don't confuse symmetry with balance.
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.
The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.
Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away. " Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects. "-Her Fearful Symmetry
There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.
Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!
The design of a temple depends on symmetry , the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.
