Luca Pacioli quotes

“Without mathematics there is no art.”
-- Luca Pacioli

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“The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.”
-- Luca Pacioli

Source : "De divina proportione". Book by Luca Pacioli, June 1, 1509.

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“The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers.”
-- Luca Pacioli

Source : "The Golden Ratio" by Mario Livio, (p. 124), 2002.

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“Without mathematics there is no art.”
-- Luca Pacioli

#Art Quotes #Mathematics Quotes

“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”

“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”

Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”

“All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.”

“I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).”