“The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.” KnowsWayMeanArtVisionKnow HowSeeingEssentialsRationalAnalysisArchitect Author:Luis Barragan
“Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.” MenMindMeanPlayDreamActionCertainEmotionMeditationSubjectsEffectsKeysNervousCertaintyAnalysisAbstractBentPsychicsIrresistibleKeyboardsDominatingTheoristsSensuousWagnerBaudelaire Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.” MeanEasyResultsMethodInventionAnalysisConstructionEquationsElegantDemonstrationIngenuityRefinedAlgebra Book:1691-1695 Source: 1691-1695