Shapes

Famous quotes containing the word shapes:

“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)

“How ill this taper burns! Ha! Who comes here?
I think it is the weakness of mine eyes
That shapes this monstrous apparition.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart’s desire.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)