I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was. Max Bill More Quotes by Max Bill More Quotes From Max Bill Fine art is in the last consequence, Max Bill lasts philosophy art The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. Max Bill orbit vision art Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. Max Bill train-of-thought ideas thinking And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art is in reason, its dynamic content is able to launch us on astral flights which soar into unknown and still uncharted regions of the imagination. Max Bill imagination art thinking We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. Max Bill resources natural art Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. Max Bill yield creating taken I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony. Max Bill influence ideas art Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art. Max Bill balance nature work art
