Ron Eglash Quotes

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.

Sometimes in a sculpture, it's interesting to me what's stylized and what's natural and how those forms interrelate, as they interrelate in ourselves.

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

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

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

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

America needs to hear some good sounds from Africa, man. The sanity of the world is going to be generated from Africa through art.

Always play with the size and scale of the items on your bookshelf. Stagger the heights of books, vases, and picture frames and try to group in odd numbers.

What I've been trying to do with my art, which has been feeling very graphically sharp - to soften it up and make it feel more hand-done.

Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side.

I pay a lot of attention to composition in my art, and I will often shift myself or change a pose according to the golden triangle rule of photography composition.

In reality, you just don't see many Samoan artists. Culturally, it's just not something that's really emphasized much - at least, hand-drawn art.

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.