Rectangles Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
— Elliott Chaze
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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,…
— Bridget Riley
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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…
— Nancy Spero
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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…
— Ellsworth Kelly
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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…
— Edward Tufte
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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…
— Jo Baer
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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…
— Richard Kalvar
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I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.
— Deborah Copaken
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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…
— Hiroshi Sugimoto
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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…
— Michael Kenna
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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…
— Frederick Lenz
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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…
— William Eggleston
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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…
— Pipilotti Rist
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My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier.
— Amy Poehler
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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…
— David Hockney
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The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.
— Jose Saramago
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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…
— Markus Zusak
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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…
— Michael Ondaatje
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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."…
— Cassandra Clare
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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…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Who Wrote These Rectangles Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Rectangles Quotes as follows: