Top 1200 Three-Dimensional Quotes & Sayings

In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of the reader, the way the reader adjusts to all the other dimensions, which is the fifth dimension.

... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun on the earth makes two dimensions - I thought that by simple intellectual analogy, the fourth dimension could project an object of three dimensions, or, to put it another way, any three-dimensional object, which we see dispassionately, is a projection of something four-dimensional, something we are not familiar with.

We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons.

No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.

I believe there are talented female rappers out there that aren't one-dimensional. It's OK to be one-dimensional, by the way.

The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.

One thing is sure - we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas.. ..To transform three into two dimensions is for me an experience full of magic in which I glimpse for a moment that fourth dimension which my whole being is seeking.

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.

I don't want to be a leader that is one-dimensional or two-dimensional because he's not willing to be open.

The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

I continue to be known as a guy that plays really complex, three-dimensional characters.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.

Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.

Even when I'm writing animation, I think of them as real people. I think of them as completely three-dimensional beings, even if it's a talking teapot. I don't think of them as one-dimensional drawn characters running around. Maybe that's why, to me, there's really no difference in writing the two - animation versus live action.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.

Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.

Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

I regard any behavior we indulge in as a game. The soul is beyond not only three-dimensional space but beyond the illusion of linear time. Any method we use to move through three- or four- dimensional space is a game. It doesn't matter how serious we take it, or how serious its consequences are.

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

Our universe - it's three-dimensional, but we can pretend it's two-dimensional so it's like this sheet of paper - and we live in Pasadena over here and London is over there, and it's thousands of miles from Pasadena to London.

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

You always draw from yourselves even if you're playing the most crazy type of person. What you really want is to be three-dimensional.

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them the next day. All directors look at the rushes, except for Fellini. I asked him why he didn't and said, "Because it interrupts my fantasy." What he was trying to say was that he had a three-dimensional, vibrant, living, volatile fantasy going on in his head, and when he looked at rushes, they were two-dimensional and they killed it.

It was a gift to get to play a gay role that was written in a three-dimensional, human way.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

Let's be real: more often than not, Hollywood does not have three-dimensional characters for women to play.

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all.

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.

I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.

It's nice to play a three-dimensional person every once in a while for a change of pace.

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

No one knows the three-dimensional story of who I am. Or anyone is.

Essentially, I look for what is interesting to me, out there in the three-dimensional world, and translate or interpret so that it becomes visually pleasing in a two-dimensional photographic print. I search for subject matter with visual patterns, interesting abstractions and graphic compositions.

People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.

If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the four-dimensional Universe.

It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.

I can't be typecast as a comedian. Only an actor capable of doing three-dimensional roles can do comedy.