Origami quotes

“Perceptual and pictorial shapes are not only translations of thought product but the very flesh and blood of thinking itself.”

“When an artist uses a multiple modular method he usually chooses a simple and readily available form. The form itself is of very limited importance; it becomes the grammar for the total work. In fact it is best that the basic unit be deliberately uninteresting so that it may more easily become an intrinsic part of the entire work. Using complex basic forms only disrupts the unity of the whole. Using a simple form repeatedly narrows the field of the work and concentrates the intensity to the arrangement of the form. This arrangement becomes the end while the form becomes the means.”

“Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.”

“The future will be curved.”

“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. This kind of art is not theoretical or illustrative of theories; it is intuitive, it is involved with all types of mental processes and it is purposeless.”

“Constraints are great for making art but ultimately you end up becoming a crappy cover artist of your own work.”

“I’ve produced a body of work that tends to generate its own future. This is the definition of having a style, when the work you’ve done becomes an objective condition of the work you will do”

“It is possible to have intense awareness when the field is narrow and the signals few.”

“The love of form is a love of endings”

“I can only be creative under huge constraints.”

"There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?"

Truth, goodness and beauty exist in a symmetrical structure within the object…. Once the structure of the object is discovered, there is no need for any other rhetoric or embellishment. There isn’t much else that needs to be done.”

In the enfolded [or implicate] order, space and time are no longer the dominant factors determining the relationships of dependence or independence of different elements. Rather, an entirely different sort of basic connection of elements is possible, from which our ordinary notions of space and time, along with those of separately existent material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order. These ordinary notions in fact appear in what is called the "explicate" or "unfolded" order, which is a special and distinguished form contained within the general totality of all the implicate order.

“Line in nature is not found. Unit and universe are round. Nature centres into balls”

This business of unfolding what is implicit into what is explicit is the cosmos discovering its own nature. It may be the divine ground of being discovering what it has the capacity to make and feeling it reflected in another.

“Colour in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”