Tom Noddy Quotes

My work is always very geometric.

If you look at the soap bubbles in the sink when you're doing dishes, you'll see the incredible diversity of shapes in there. There are cubes in there; there are decahedrons and tetrahedrons; there are odd, irregular shapes without names, you know.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

If it is not now the time to study Geometry, when will it be?

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

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

I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study of how the whole universe is structured.

When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I'll point out that I can only do three of the five forms with bubbles, since bubbles only join at three-way corners. The two I can't do are the ones that represent water and air. That always gets a big laugh from the mathematicians. They see the irony in it.

The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.

I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Circles create soothing space.

She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Music is geometry in time.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.