A Quote by John Clayton

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.

John Clayton

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John Clayton
English - Priest
Born: October 9, 1709

Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.

Gaspard Monge

I use the old Strathmore vellum surface paper, which is the best paper you can get in the Western world for ink line drawing. It has a good, hard surface.

Robert Crumb

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.

Richard Avedon

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Avicenna

The present is an infinitesimal between two infinites. 'Tis a line (a thing without breadth or thickness) moving across the surface of Eternity. The present is no more, by the time you have said, 'This is present.'

Henry Harland

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Herb Caen

When you look at the Earth's horizon and see the thickness of the atmosphere, it's not even the thickness of an orange peel.

Gregory H. Johnson

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

Evan Esar

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

H. L. Mencken

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

Width of life is more important than length of life.

Avicenna

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

Massimo Vignelli

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Max Beckmann

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The only thing that will change with fashion is the brows' thickness or thinness. Every season the arch will be the same.

Anastasia Soare

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

Vitruvius

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