Facts about Max Bill

Occup.Architect
FromSwitzerland
BornDecember 22, 1908
DiedDecember 8, 1994
Aged85 years

Summary

Max Bill was a famous Architect from Switzerland, who lived between December 22, 1908 and December 8, 1994. He/she became 85 years old.

Our collection contains 6 quotes who is written / told by Max.

6 Famous quotes by Max Bill

Small: I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was
"I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was"
Small: Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values si
"Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance"
Small: We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and r
"We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction"
Small: The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied t
"The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it"
Small: Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongsi
"Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art"
Small: Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its
"Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking"