There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
The straight line is ungodly.
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.
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.
Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
