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The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism. -- Dennis Oppenheim
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. -- Elliott Chaze
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor. -- Deborah Copaken
The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture. -- Jose Saramago
My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier. -- Amy Poehler
This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian . [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing. -- Wolfgang Pauli
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger. -- Rita Mae Brown
Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them. -- Frank Gohlke
I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify. -- William Eggleston
I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. -- David Hockney
I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera. -- Edward Tufte
A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and isolation from everything outside the rectangle, it can create another reality, an emotion that did not exist in the 'true' situation. It's the tension between these two realities that lends it strength. -- Richard Kalvar
Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period, fh). She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue. -- Hans Arp
It helps so much being on location. It's like the difference between performing for the rectangle of the camera versus a world being created and then the camera finds things within that. There's a huge difference in that, because what it takes away is performance. You don't feel like performing. You're just kind of doing it. You're existing. -- Christian Bale
Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments. -- Pipilotti Rist
The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future. -- Ellsworth Kelly
In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares and rectangles. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks. -- Nathan Sawaya

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