Selected Bibliography Architecture - Form Space and Order | Page 16

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Primary Elements
“All pictorial form begins with the point that sets itself in motion…
The point moves . . . and the line comes into being—the first dimension.
If the line shifts to form a plane, we obtain a two-dimensional element.
In the movement from plane to spaces, the clash of planes gives rise to
body (three-dimensional) . . . A summary of the kinetic energies
which move the point into a line, the line into a plane,
and the plane into a spatial dimension.”
Paul Klee
The Thinking Eye: The Notebooks of Paul Klee
(English translation)
1961