A Quote by Jean Cocteau

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Jean Cocteau

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Arithmetic Cage Composer Door Draftsman Freedom Geometry Gives Opens

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Jean Cocteau
French - Novelist
July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963

In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the forms and demonstrations of geometry, on the theories and calculations of arithmetic ... In a word, the theory of proportions is for industrial teaching, what algebra is for the most elevated mathematical teaching.

Jean-Victor Poncelet

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

David Hilbert

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.

Mitt Romney

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.

Lady Gaga

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Claude Debussy

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

Nicholas of Cusa

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Watts

I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"

David Grubbs

My commercial viability, coupled with my reputation, gives me enough freedom to assert my right as a composer.

Ilaiyaraaja

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Comte de Lautreamont

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

Hannah More

To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.

Ole Hallesby

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.