Ancient-china Quote by Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching

“Embossed letters represent the topography of typography.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The experiments progress slowly," Mendel wrote. "At first a certain amount of patience was needed, but I soon found that matters went better when…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“What remains is the impression of a clear rhythm, a logical & absolutely sure articulation of the picture plane.”

— Leonhard Emmerling

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign…

— John French Sloan

And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me…

— Robert Longo

“lines and angles, flat and bland, raise these volumes and make them stand.”

— James Moloney

Drawing is the sum of directions.

— Andre Lhote

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

— Louis L'Amour

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

— Johan Huizinga

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

— Serge Schmemann

“Around 30,000 years ago, in the Aurignacian, at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, someone or some group in the Eyzies region invented drawing,…

— James David Lewis-Williams