Horizontality Quotes & Sayings

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact. — Theodor Adorno

Durham Cathedral, like all great buildings of antiquity, is essentially just a giant pile of rubble held in place by two thin layers of dressed stone. But - and here is the truly remarkable thing - because that gloopy mortar was contained between two impermeable outer layers, air couldn't get to it, so it took a very long time - forty years to be precise - to dry out. As it dried, the whole structure gently settled, which meant that the cathedral masons had to build doorjambs, lintels, and the like at slightly acute angles so that they would ease over time into the correct alignments. And that's exactly what happened. After forty years of slow-motion sagging, the building settled into a position of impeccable horizontality, which it has maintained ever since. To me, that is just amazing - the idea that people would have the foresight and dedication to ensure a perfection that they themselves might never live to see. — Bill Bryson

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality. — Jean Baudrillard

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence. — Louise Bourgeois

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America. — Sue Wicks

The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them. — Mortimer J. Adler

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Life is too short for chess. — Lord Byron

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare. — Michael Ignatieff

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate — Rem Koolhaas

All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant. — Lee Krasner

Along with all those books about Lincoln, Obama might read some biographies of Napoleon. The general who established the Legion d'Honneur understood that people fought as much for medals as for morals. — Tina Brown

The Silent Service is all together too silent. It's important to begin to highlight the critical importance of the Silent Service to our national security. — Rob Simmons

There will Be a Moment when Your eyes meet, and everything in the world will be simple again. — Michael Edwards

What better way to actually deal with L.A. than to get above it and engage with the horizontality and scale of the basin itself? — Michael Light

Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people. — Y. C. James Yen

Life: composted lessons for our hearts to blossom into our souls. — Soul Dancer

Om Namah Shivaya.
I honor the divinity that resides within me.
... I repeat it again. Again. And again. It's not so much that I'm meditating as unpacking the mantra carefully, the way you would unpack your grandmother's best china if it had been stored in a box for a long time, unused. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint ... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption. — James Rosenquist