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“Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.”

“Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?”

“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.”

People Way Giving Trying Firsts Stills Important Hard Helping Form Three Understanding Break Missing Figures Objects Materials Tools Direct Presses Behave Digital Quests Impressive Rendering

Author:Jonathan Ive

“There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.”

Firsts Seems Eye Three Objects Color Perspective Ought Aspect Thirds Distance Size Finished Diminish

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”

Giving May Two Three Space Objects Painting Illusion Concern Strive Painter Luxury Planes Peculiar Quantity Sculpture Sculptors

Author:Herbert Read

“I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without. Although I often end up acquiring two or three works by an artist who particularly interests me, it's more for fear that a single one might get too lonely.”

Two Ends Might Artist Three Interest Emotion Objects Lonely Selling Fascinated

Author:Michael Audain

“It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.”

Way Mean Two Important Action Three Force Influence Subjects Objects Patient Rate Contrary Agents Pairs Cooperation Relative Brutes Brute Force

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“One thing is sure - we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas.. ..To transform three into two dimensions is for me an experience full of magic in which I glimpse for a moment that fourth dimension which my whole being is seeking.”

World Two Whole Moments Three Magic One Thing Objects Seeking Dimensions Fourth Canvas Glimpse

Book:Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950

“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.”

Men Moments Use Purpose Three Lost Goal Break Achieve Objects Needed Majors Capable Down And Method Defeat Categories Breaking Down Classification Inanimate Objects

Author:Russell Baker

“I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.”

Three Quality Objects Degrees Laughter Various Describing Mockery Grotesque Three Words Nausea

Author:Sergei Prokofiev

“The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go wrong, it naturally begins to be divided against itself, and the three great wheels of its machinery exhaust their momentum, or wear each other out, in their friction against each other; while, as soon as it begins to go right, all the parts work harmoniously, and exhaust their full strength on the object of their action.”

Government Action Three Powerful Objects Weak Wheels Divided Federal Government Machinery Momentum Friction

Author:William Batchelder Greene

“One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.”

Men Three Objects Degrees Superiors Suits Principal Behaviour Breeding Good Breeding

Author:Jonathan Swift

“The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.”

Made Three Space White Rooms Objects Classic Canvas Interiors

Author:Gunter Brus

“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.”

Men Choices Three Pleasure Animal Common Objects Opposites Painful Noble Motive Pleasant Good Man Three Things Avoidance

Author:Aristotle

“Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.”

“For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").”

Joy Poetry Three Literature Bits Pleasure Objects Poetic Quarters Guessing Suppressing

Book:On Literature

Source: On Literature