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“It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.”

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Author:Piet Mondrian

“I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.”

“Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.”

“A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.”

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Author:Janet Collins

“My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.”

Writing Dream Lying Space Bed Closest Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Richard Powers

“Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.”

Force Lines Fine Cords Bending Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:William Whewell

“But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.”

Thinking Art Stills Lines Painting Hints Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Agnes Martin

“I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.”

Thinking Art Progress Movement Horizontal Lines

Author:Donald Barthelme

“Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.”

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Book:Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: exhibition Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art

Source: Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: exhibition Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art

“My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.”

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Author:Nicholas Ray

“Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.”

World Lines Interiors Neat Vertical Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Patti Smith

“We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.”

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Author:Simon McBurney

“I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.”

Thinking Art Purpose Speak Lines Progress Movement Vertical Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Donald Barthelme

“When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.”

May Science Lines Results Elements Weight Conclusion Arrangements Columns Vertical Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Dmitri Mendeleev