Quotes About Horizontal Lines

#1. My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

Agnes Martin

#2. Essentially the rule of thirds is this: If you take a photo and place two imaginary horizontal lines across it, dividing the photo into three horizontal rectangles, and if you take two vertical lines and do the same then you will end up with an imaginary set of lines like those below:

Aaron Chase

#3. Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.

Piet Mondrian

#4. When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#5. The beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left,they were so
beautiful.
they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.

Charles Bukowski

#6. He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. There was so much suffering in Africa that it was tempting just to shrug your shoulders and walk away. But you can't do that, she thought. You just can't.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.

Gayle Forman

#9. Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

Andre Breton

#10. A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.

Janet Collins

#11. When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

Josef Albers

#12. Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line
you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

Patti Smith

#13. I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

Al Goldstein

#14. My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.

Eric Hernandez

#15. My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

Nicholas Ray

#16. As with any violent ideology, the populace must be shielded from direct exposure to the victims of the system, lest they begin questioning the system or their participation in it. This truth speaks for itself: why else would the meat industry go to such lengths to keep its practices invisible?

Melanie Joy

#17. In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.

Johann Friedrich Herbart