Fixed Block

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or block:

“The sky is silent too,
Hard as granite and as fixed as fate.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“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)