The Nature of Order

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Simplicity and Inner Calm
It has to do with a certain slowness, majesty, quietness, which I think of as
inner calm.
This quality comes about when everything unnecessary is removed. All
centers that are note actively supporting other centers are stripped out, cut
out, excised. What is left, when boiled away, is the structure in a state of
inner calm.
It is essential that the great beauty and intricacy of ornament go only just far
enough to bring this calm into being, and not so far that it destroys it.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
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