Optically Quotes

#1. Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

Yayoi Kusama

#2. Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

Jan Tschichold

#3. Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

El Lissitzky

#4. If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,

Edward Tufte

#5. In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#6. Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.

Bernd Becher

#7. Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC

Mark Gorman

#8. You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.

J.R. Ward

#9. the confidence people express often reflects their personalities rather than their knowledge, memory, or abilities.

Christopher Chabris

#10. Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Bertolt Brecht

#11. Z knew the fed EX-tinction package had arrived and wasn't ready to take delivery

J.R. Ward

#12. Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the ancient hunter. Sadly, that's not quite as much use today.

Barbara Pease

#13. I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

William J. Clinton

#14. She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

Veronica Roth

#15. Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Limit your life to concentration on the self and your world can only be small. Embrace interconnectedness and unity and the world becomes endlessly full of possibilities.

A.C. Ping

#17. Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

John Thorn

#18. for he seemed only able to inhale it by thimblefuls,

Mark Twain

#19. It takes just one wave to capsize a boat, and one more to take it down.

Federico Chini

#20. Every time I see David Giuntoli on set, it feels like there's a huge load off his shoulders, because when it's me, it's real and it's flirtatious and it seems like it's way more fun.

David Giuntoli