Paul Cezanne Quotes

Approach nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone ...

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.

The straight line is ungodly.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

My work is always very geometric.

When I was in Cambridge reading mathematics, I went to Amsterdam for the International Mathematics Congress. There I saw M.C. Escher's fascinating work. That inspired me to try my hand at drawing such impossibilities.

I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.

You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.