Geometric Quotes

• The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Gone, Use, Able

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• New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

  Roland Barthes

  New York, Real, Men

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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  There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

  Pythagoras

  Science, Spheres, Guitar Strings

  Quoted in Aristotle Metaphysics.

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• She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Curves, Perfect, Together

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.

  Martina McBride

  Geometric Shapes, Trying, Patterns

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• We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

  Matthew Fox

  Beauty, Blow, Cracks

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• The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

  Andre Maurois

  Effectiveness, Progression, Increase

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• There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

  Matthew Fox

  Cracks, Patterns, Awareness

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• ...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Numbers, Feelings

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• My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Form, Ifs

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Reality

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• Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

  Anish Kapoor

  Mathematical Logic, Kind, Form

  Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com.

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• The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Eye, Black And White

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Numbers, Issues, Today

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• Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

  Omar Khayyam

  Book, Thinking, Two

  As quoted in "A Paper of Omar Khayyam" by A.R. Amir-Moez in "Scripta Mathematica", 26, 1963.

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• In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

  Hermann Weyl

  Order, Physics, Geometry

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• You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

  David Levithan

  Geometric Shapes, Broken, Definitions

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• But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

  William Wordsworth

  Squares, Splits, Intellect

  William Wordsworth (1970). “The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

  Jean Piaget

  Order, Two, Knows

  Jean-Claude Bringuier, Jean Piaget (1989). “Conversations with Jean Piaget”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."

  Eyvind Kang

  Art, Wall, Expression

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

  Lucinda Childs

  Ideas, Tools, Purpose

  Source: www.kcet.org

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• Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

  Omar Khayyam

  Statistics, Facts, Algebra

  As quoted in "A Paper of Omar Khayyam" by A.R. Amir-Moez in "Scripta Mathematica", 26, 1963.

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• I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

  Johannes Kepler

  God, Believe, Ideas

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• Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made.

  Christopher Alexander

  Character, Space, Events

  "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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• On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.

  Christopher Alexander

  Block, Space, Different

  "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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