Max Bill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony...
-- Max Bill

#Art #Ideas #Influence
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
-- Max Bill

#Art #Natural #Resources
And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art is in reason, its dynamic content is able to launch us on astral flights which soar into unknown and still uncharted regions of the imagination.
-- Max Bill

#Art #Thinking #Imagination
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
-- Max Bill

#Art #Vision #Territory
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
-- Max Bill

#Taken #Ideas #Creating
I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.
-- Max Bill

#Knowing #Firsts #Made
Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
-- Max Bill

#Thinking #Ideas #Unity
Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.
-- Max Bill

#Art #Philosophy #Lasts

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.
Bowie's been a huge influence on me.
All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

Max Bill famous quotes

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