Golden Ratio

Creative Bloq. n.d. The designer's guide to the Golden Ratio. [online] Available from: http://www.creativebloq.com/design/designers-guide-golden-ratio-12121546

• "A common mathematical ratio found in nature that can be used to create pleasing, natural looking compositions in your design" 
• "Describes the perfectly symmetrical relationship between two proportions" 
• "A perfectly symmetrical composition is less satisfying and aesthetically pleasing than one in which the proportions are slightly asymmetrical" 

Olsen, S. “The Golden Section” (2006) Wooden Books Ltd: Somerset.

The mystery of Phi pg.2

“One of the eternal questions asked by philosophers concerns how the one becomes many. What is the nature of separation, or division? Is there a way in which parts can retain a meaningful relationship to the whole?”

Phi in Painting pg.36

“By carefully linking the ratios and proportions of a work of art, ensuring that the parts reflect and synchronise with the whole, a painter can create an aesthetic, dynamic, living embodiment of the harmonic and symmetrical principles lying behind nature itself.”  E.g. Leonardo Da Vinci and Salvador Dali