Variable Block

Famous quotes containing the words variable and/or block:

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“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)