Geometry Quote by Arthur Honegger Download Open image “Music is geometry in time.” — Arthur Honegger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Geometry Mathematics Music Music is Time
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
“Music allows us to assemble temporal sequences into mental scaffolding that transcends the thinness of time in which we live.” — George B. Dyson Copy Share Image
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root'… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
“This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have… — John Pile Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
