Geometric Art Quotes

I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. Initially I was attracted by the typical Pop Art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; I preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of Albers, Bill, Calderara, Lohse, etc.

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own work.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

I paint with shapes.