Complexes Quote by Edward Tufte

Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our…

— Thomas Banchoff

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary.…

— Margaret Atwood

“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary.…

— Margaret Atwood

During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized…

— Frederick Lenz

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and…

— Max Beckmann

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.

— Don DeLillo

I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar,…

— Olivo Barbieri

The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The…

— Werner Herzog

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static…

— Alan Perlis

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

— Liz Murray

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

— Leigh Hunt

“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places,…

— Edwin A. Abbott