John Dee Quotes

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

I make fractals. They're like mathematical pictures. My stepdad is actually a rocket scientist, so in his free time, he gave me a fractal program for fun. He showed me how to use it when I was about nine or 10, and I made thousands of fractals.

Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

Art and politics must move closer together. Reflection and action must be equally valid in good men if history is not to take one course and art another.

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

I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture that you can interpret differently every time you look at it.

In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

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

I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.

God ever geometrizes.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

A line is length without breadth.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

God is a geometrician.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.