Complexes Quote by Mark Rothko

“It is extremely interesting, then, to think about the meaning of the word ‘form’ as it applies to constructions of arbitrarily complex shapes. For…

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

— James J. Gibson

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

— Taliesin

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the…

— Jim Woodring

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…

— Pipilotti Rist

Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in…

— Augustus De Morgan

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

— Beth Ditto

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 was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball…

— Michael Polanyi

All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and easier because…

— Diana Gabaldon

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were…

— Rudy Rucker

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

— Akira Yoshizawa