Tag: geometry
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‘Geometry attempts to recapture the orderly movement from an infinite formlessness to an endless interconnected array of forms, and in recreating this mysterious passage from One to Two, it renders it symbolically visible. From both the metaphysical and natural points of view it is false to say that in order to arrive at two, you…
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‘What they (the geometers) really seek is to get sight of those realities which can be seen only by the mind.’ Plato, Republic, VII
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‘The implicit goal of this (classical) education was to enable the mind to become a channel through which the ‘earth’ (the level of manifested form) could receive the abstract, cosmic life of the heavens. The practice of geometry was an approach to the way in which the universe is ordered and sustained. Geometric diagrams can…
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‘What is God? He is length, width, height and depth.’ – St Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration
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‘All our senses function in response to the geometrical differences inherent in the stimuli they receive. When we smell a rose we are not responding to the chemical substances of its perfume, but instead to the geometry of their molecular construction. Any chemical substance that is bonded together in the same geometry as that of…
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‘Principles for the development of a complete mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses – especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.’ – Leonardo da Vinci
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– Anwar Jalal Shemza, Untitled (Red and Yellow Ochre Composition), 1965
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AL-BAATIN: The Hidden One, Knower of the Hidden The One who cannot be seen in the way creation can be seen. He is the One from whom nothing is hidden and who surrounds all things. He knows the inner state, yet He is veiled from the creation’s perception. – 99 Names of Allah (number 76)
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– Anwar Jalal Shemza, Chessmen One, 1961
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– Emma Kunz
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– László Moholy-Nagy, Z II, 1925
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‘No painter could paint well who did not know much geometry.’ – Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting
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‘One circle, one square, one problem, one life is not enough to solve it.’ – Anwar Jalal Shemza, quoted in: Calligraphic Abstraction by Iftikhar Dadi
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‘We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth.’ – The Qur’an, Fussilat 41:53
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‘And of His signs are the night and day and the sun and moon. Do not prostrate to the sun or to the moon, but prostrate to Allah who created them.’ – The Qur’an, Fussilat 41:37
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