Curves Quotes
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Lovelyare the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit
by one large star. Lone on the
fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the
gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.
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More Curves Quotes
Straight lines don’t exists in Odissi. In contrast to the other classical Indian dances…take the position of tribhangi, the characteristic position of the Odissi style, made from three curves of the body with the torso displaced in the opposite direction to that of the waist and the head.
— By Samjukta Panigrahi quoted in "New Theatre Quarterly 55", p.257
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered by reinforced concrete.… This deliberate protest arose from the environment in which I lived, with its white beaches, its huge mountains, its old baroque churches, and the beautiful suntanned women.
oscar niemeyer— The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer (2000), p. 62
It is not the right angle that attracts me.nor the straight line, tough, inflexible,created by man.what attracts me is the free, sensual curve.the curve I find in the mountains of my country,in the sinuous course of its rivers,in the waves of the sea,in the clouds of the sky,in the body of the favourite woman.Of curves is made all the universe.
oscar niemeyer— As quoted on a Photo page on the Museum of Contemporary Art over Baia da Guanabara
While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick — girls with huge butts and nice curves.
rihanna— Allure magazine interview, January 2008.
[The theory of the firm] is exactly analogous to the analysis of the reactions of a consumer by means of indifferent curves. Indeed, a consumer is merely a ‘firm’ whose product is ‘utility’.
kenneth boulding— p.799 (The theory of the firm in the last ten Years, 1942)
Music expresses the motion of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
claude debussy— As quoted in The Twentieth Century (1972) by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 222Variant translation: Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
It is better to have the child in the chimney corner moved by what happens in the poem, in spite of his ignorance of its real meaning, than to have the poem a puzzle to which that meaning is the only key. Still, complicated subjects make complicated poems, and some of the best poems can move only the best readers; this is one more question of curves of normal distribution. I have tried to make my poems plain, and most of them are plain enough; but I wish that they were more difficult because I had known more.
Randall Jarrell— "Answers to Questions," from Mid-Century American Poets, edited by John Ciardi, 1950 [p. 170]
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill , Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.
asger jorn— Statement in the late 1960s, as quoted in Fortaelleren Asger Jorn (1984) by Gunnar Jespersen, p. 121
I like to have curves and feel like a woman. I hope that people see that in my photos and know that healthy is better than skinny.
marisa miller— Marisa Miller Profile. New York Magazine. Retrieved on 2009-10-14.
In the Odissi syle [we have] many different steps in the basic position called chauka , which means square, and the same amount in the position called tribhanghi , when the body assume three curves.
— By Samjukta Panigrahi quoted in "New Theatre Quarterly 55", p.258
... one of the basic principles of higher mathematics is the contradiction that in certain circumstances straight lines and curves may be the same.... But even lower mathematics teems with contradictions.
— Engels, in "Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung On Contradiction".
The iron arc of the avoiding journey curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.
stephen spender— "Darkness And Light"
Come, see the north-wind's masonry. Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Snow-Storm.
The vertical is in my spirit. It helps me to define precisely the direction of lines, and in quick sketches I never indicate a curve, that of a branch in landscape for example, without being aware of its relationship to the vertical.My curves are not mad.
— La verticale est dans mon esprit. Elle m'aide à préciser la direction des lignes, et dans mes dessins rapides je n'indique pas une courbe, par exemple, celle d'une branche dans un paysage, sans avoir conscience de son rapport avec la verticale.Mes courbes ne sont pas folles.
