Arrangements Quote by Democritus

Compare constantly, lines and angles... Hold looking-glass before your model and your drawing. Take a second's glance only, and see if the impression be…

— William Morris Hunt

“the Doric order the column has no separate base, but rises direct from the top step of the platform on which the building it…

— Nancy R E Meugens Bell

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

— Edgar Degas

Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest…

— Hans Reichenbach

Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

— Jean Aitchison

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or…

— Samuel Alexander

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...

— Blaise Pascal

Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change…

— Steve de Shazer

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

— Kerry James Marshall

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

— Henri Poincare

The shapes are more angular, more aviator in feeling. A little bit larger and oversize...They're also doing wonderful combinations, mixing the acetates with metals,…

— Marc Jacobs

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you…

— Sean Booth