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Quotes About Space

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
~ Unknown
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
~ Arthur Erickson
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
~ Thom Mayne
You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.
~ Shannon Lucid
The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.
~ Romain Rolland
What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.
~ Andy Warhol
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.
~ Sara Genn
Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.
~ Vladimir Putin
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
~ John Updike
I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.
~ Eli Broad
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
~ Jules Renard
What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces.
~ Unknown
in which the Soviets did manage to sustain some innovation was through enormous efforts in military and aerospace technology. As a result they managed to put the first dog, Leika, and the first man, Yuri Gagarin, in space. They also left the world the AK-47 as one of their legacies.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Vampires can run at an extra-fast speed, a magic kind of running, where they slip through space like eels through a net. They call it "flitting.")
~ Darren Shan
The U.S. space probe Meanderer J I, after a journey of six years and many millions of miles, passes within 400 miles of the surface of Neptune, sending back dramatic color photographs of a Delta Air Lines jet.
~ Dave Barry
Have we wasted precious space dust on you?
~ Dave Eggers
Kiss my wookie.
~ Unknown
Thus apocalypses set an audience's space within the context of a larger, invisible world, and they set the audience's time in the context of a sacred history of God's activity and carefully defined plan.
~ Unknown
because of the tiny size of the apartment, was happening
~ David Baldacci
sofa. She looked around, her eyes taking in a wall of French doors that was visible on the ocean side. The room was huge, with ceilings that soared at least twenty feet high. An interior second-story balcony ran across one side of the room. Another wall held a collection of finely bound books. Comfortable furnishings were placed throughout.
~ David Baldacci
We propose instead that the basic element be a moment which, like the moment of consciousness, cannot be precisely related to measurements of space and time, but rather covers a somewhat vaguely defined region which is extended in space and has duration in time.
~ David Bohm