#curved

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. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#consciously #curved #guess #i #i am

I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India. ↗

— Terry Riley

#already #big #career #cbs #curved

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#heart #human #human heart #like #line

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. ↗

— Bret Harte

#again #curved #into #kissed #lip

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#center #church #curved #death #down

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#anything #beauty #creativity #curved #line

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#attacks #back #bull #curved #fights

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. ↗

— Josef Albers

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