Quotes: Geometry

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

I’ve always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.