Best Rectangles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles.”

Looks Humanity Term Buddhism West East Circles Squares Rectangles

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.”

People I Can Imagine Middle Objects Appreciate Photographer Rectangles

Author:William Eggleston

“I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.”

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Author:Pipilotti Rist

“My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier.”

Trying Technology Possibility Phones Disappointment Technological Kill Me Batteries Rectangles Pacifiers

Author:Amy Poehler

“This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.”

World I Can Shows Bigs Missing Paint Details Drawing Rectangles

Author:Wolfgang Pauli

“Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.”

Persons Art Space Wall Art Is Viewers Space Between Rectangles

Author:T. Allen Lawson

“It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.”

Ifs Sometimes Whole Happens Loses Figures Design Fine Balance Window Ruins Canvas Strokes Exit Precision Cords Fudge Umbilical Cord Rectangles

Author:James Nares

“The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.”

“When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.”

“Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height”

Mind Asks Social Brain Areas Function Dues Height Meaningless Psychiatry Width Rectangles

Author:Leon Eisenberg

“To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say that photography is the art of writing with time. When you capture an image you capture not only a piece of space, you also capture a piece of time. So you have this piece of specific time in your square or rectangle. In that sense I find that photography has more to do with time than with light.”

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Author:Gerardo Suter

“I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.”

Wells Made Shows Taken Degrees Garden Photograph Angle Ninety Kyoto Rectangles

Author:David Hockney

“Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.”

Trying Humans Soul Green Court Boundaries Fixed Tennis Human Soul Patches Coffins Acres Rectangles Tennis Courts

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“It helps so much being on location. It's like the difference between performing for the rectangle of the camera versus a world being created and then the camera finds things within that. There's a huge difference in that, because what it takes away is performance. You don't feel like performing. You're just kind of doing it. You're existing.”

World Feels Kind Helping Differences Huge Performances Cameras Performing Location Versus Rectangles

Author:Christian Bale

“I don't understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That's the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there - a white rectangle in a theater - and it has to be filled.”

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Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.”

World Reality Photography Photographer Surface Significance Latent Unlocking Scrutinize Rectangles

Book:Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews

Source: Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews

“The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.”

Giving Ideas Force Constant Photograph Pictorial Rectangles

Author:Dennis Oppenheim

“In truth a clear-headed physicalist shouldn't be thinking any of these dualist thoughts. If pains are one and the same as C-fibres firing, then there really isn't any possibility of having 'one' without the 'other'. Once you properly appreciates physicalism, this dissociation should cease to appear possible - C-fibres with pains should strike you as no more possible than squares without rectangles.”

Ifs Thinking Should Pain Clear Possibility Appreciate Strikes Cease Squares Dissociation Firing Rectangles

Author:David Papineau

“The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.”

Left Sun Corners Rectangles

Author:Jose Saramago

“When I recollect her, I see a long list of colors, but it's the three in which I saw her in the flesh that resonate the most. Sometimes I manage to float far above those three moments. I hang suspended, until a septic truth bleeds toward clarity. That's when I see them formulate: THE COLORS RED: [rectangle] WHITE: [circle] BLACK: [swastika] They fall on top of each other. The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.”

Long Sometimes Moments Fall Three Black White Saws Color Red Flesh Lists Circles Clarity Manage Thick Floats Signatures Suspended Rectangles Color Red

Author:Markus Zusak

“A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it doesn’t matter if I will ever see you again. It isn’t the morality, it’s how much you can bear. No date. No name attached.”

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Author:Michael Ondaatje

“Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.”

Giving Said Darkness Doors Reaching Reach Out Laziness Twists Sleeves Jem Knobs Clockwork Angel Rectangles

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.”

Running Water Levels Imagine Football Wall Drug Paper Bird Standing Legs Farms Multiple Cages Ceilings Grids Heating Printer Rectangles Ventilation

Book:Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.”

Hard Moving Balls Shoes Snow Tennis Addict Fuzzy Ambush Tennis Balls Rectangles Funny Tennis

Author:Elliott Chaze

“I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.”

Giving Problem Wanted Form Study Seeing Painting Depends Essentials Mark Structure Series Intention Agents Impulse Sensations Squares Sole Canvas Recognizing Untrue Triangles Rectangles

Author:Bridget Riley

“I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.”

Thinking Wanted Term Practice Wall Accepted Radical Flats Squares Usual Premises Format Hooked Artwork Framed Rectangles

Author:Nancy Spero

“The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future.”

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Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.”

World Giving Long Book Real Enough Walks Dog Computer Plant Screens Flats More Time Real World Opera Glowing Computer Screen Rectangles Real Books

Author:Edward Tufte

“A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede, a color band which does not obtrude, a white square or rectangle which does not move back or forth, to or fro, or up or down; there is also a painted white exterior frame band which is edged round the edge to the black. Every part is painted and contiguous to its neighbor; no part is above or below any other part. There is no hierarchy. There is no ambiguity. There is no illusion. There is no space or interval (time).”

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Author:Jo Baer

“A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength.”

Two Reality Emotion Silence Situation Movement Photograph Tension Isolation Rectangles

Author:Richard Kalvar

“I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.”

Littles Turns Presses Metaphor Freeze Shutters Slice Of Life Rectangles Freeze Time

Book:Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War

Source: Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War

“One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.”

“It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.”