Space Quotes - Page 3

• The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

  Henri Matisse

  Play, Empty, Proportion

  Henri Matisse, Susan Lambert, Victoria and Albert Museum (1981). “Matisse lithographs”

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• Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Color, Ideas

  Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”

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• Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.

  Stan Smith

  Negatives Make, Play, Drawing

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• Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

  Yves Klein

  Eye, Existential, Granted

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.15, 1974.

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• The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

  Paula Rego

  Worry, Gaps, Form

  John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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• The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.

  James J. Gibson

  Heart, Depth, World

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• No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Race, Quests, Venture

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

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• There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

  Selima Hill

  Break Through, Gaps, Sometimes

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• You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.

  Guido Molinari

  Ideas, Brain, Entering

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• I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

  Fairfield Porter

  Air, Paint

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• The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

  Joseph Raffael

  Demand, Want, Information

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• The hardest thing is to make this little space for yourself where you can think and not get inundated with other stuff coming in.

  Catherine Yass

  Thinking, Littles, Stuff

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• To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

  Wade Guyton

  Taken, Architecture, Accounts

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• There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

  Norbert Bisky

  White, Painting, Entry

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• The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

  Gene Cernan

  Silence, Sound, Absence

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• Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Overcoming, Cost

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (2004). “The Aims Of Astronautics”, p.38, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

  Alexey Leonov

  Believe, Home, Light

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• Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is.

  Loren Acton

  Life, Drama, Moving

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• My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Views, Glimpse, Earth

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

  James Smith McDonnell

  War, Future, Creativity

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• Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Past, Journey, Mountain

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• In Hilbert space no one can hear you scream.

  Yakir Aharonov

  Scream, Taglines, Science Fiction Movie

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• I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.

  William Shatner

  Men, Ideas, Hovering

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• You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Appreciate, Wish, Quiet

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• The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sports, War, Distance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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