Max Bill quotes
-
“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 -
“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 -
“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 -
“The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.”
-- Max BillSource : Max Bill, James N. Wood (1974). “Max Bill”
-
-
“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 BillSource : Max Bill, Eduard Hüttinger, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1978). “Max Bill”
-
“I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.”
-- Max Bill -
“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 -
“Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.”
-- Max Bill -
-
“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”
-
Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
-
Source : "Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.
-
Source : Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons
You may also like:
-
Alexander Calder
Sculptor -
Armin Hofmann
Graphic Designer -
Dieter Rams
Industrial designer -
Emil Ruder
Graphic Designer -
Georges Braque
Painter -
Hans Arp
Sculptor -
Herbert Bayer
Graphic Designer -
Jan Tschichold
Writer -
Josef Albers
Artist -
Josef Muller-Brockmann
Graphic Designer -
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Painter -
Le Corbusier
Architect -
Otl Aicher
Graphic Designer -
Paul Rand
Graphic Designer -
Sophie Scholl
Political activist -
Theo van Doesburg
Artist -
Walter Gropius
Architect -
Wassily Kandinsky
Artist