Grids Quotes

• The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropiate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.

  Josef Muller-Brockmann

  Art, Practice, Numbers

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• All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

  Chuck Close

  Done, Painting, Fingerprints

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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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• We're a superpower with a third world grid.

  Bill Richardson

  World, Thirds, Super Power

  "Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2003.

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• We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

  Richard Burr

  Reality, Light, Reliability

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• We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

  Paul Gillmor

  Meaningful, Country, Commitment

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• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  Harold H. Greene

  Aggravation, Judging, Disparity

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• The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Order, Style, Outcomes

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

  Bill Vaughan

  Government, Coal, Shutting Down

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• And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

  John W. Snow

  Country, Energy, Coal

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Giving, Car, Facts

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Underwear, Consciousness, Exposed

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• To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

  Ellen Lupton

  Media, Use, Language

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• Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Long, Lions, Cages

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• The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Block, Cities, Two

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• The grid is like the lines on a football field. You can play a great game in the grid or a lousy game. But the goal is to play a really fine game.

  Wim Crouwel

  Football, Games, Play

  "Beautiful Games: stylised football posters", www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2013.

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• I find great satisfaction in the rigorous structure of the grid, but I like the organic on the grid so that there's a combination of structure and chaos.

  Michelle Stuart

  Satisfaction, Chaos, Structure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Grid systems in graphic design

  Josef Muller-Brockmann

  Design, Graphic Design, Graphic

  Josef Müller-Brockmann (1995). “Josef Müller-Brockmann, designer: a pioneer of Swiss graphic design”, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

  Terence McKenna

  Literature, Form, Over It

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• Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

  Ron Perlman

  Reality, Be Kind, Outlaw

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• I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Believe, Technology

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• The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

  Annie Dillard

  Art, Mind, Collaboration

  Annie Dillard (1982). “Living by fiction”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.

  Max Lucado

  Unique, Personality, Trying

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.

  Agnes Martin

  Thinking, Tree, Mind

  "Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2015.

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• If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven't even climbed. This is a lesson that can only be learned by trial and error.

  Mary Ruefle

  Errors, Ideas, Path

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