Block Length

Famous quotes containing the words block and/or length:

“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)

“Your length in clay’s now competent,
A long war disturbed your mind;”
—John Webster (c. 1580–1638)