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Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.
Draw a straight line and follow it.
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop ... suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
My job is to draw little points on little graphs and to derive little information.
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first ... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not. [ ... ] To plot, to take aim at something, to shape time and space. This is how we advance the art of human consciousness. (WN 291-2)
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
Visualization engages the mind and encourages the body.
I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That's all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.
In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures
Visualization prepares you for the experience of success. As you become increasingly optimistic and excited about ideas that motivate you, you open yourself to new ideas, meaningful relationships, and exhilarating opportunities.
Drawing is the sum of directions.
In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.
figure of the First.
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
A plot is two dogs and one bone.
There is only one plot - things are not what they seem.
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
I hate charts. I just despise 'em.
The thick plottens.
Use plot to buttress a story.
on a map: There itMap-- Amor Towles
Plot might seem to be a matter of choice. It is not. The particular plot is something the novelist is driven to: it is what is left after the whittling-away of alternatives.' Elizabeth Bowen opened her Notes on Writing a Novel (1945, reprinted in Collected Impressions, Longmans, Green & Co.,
I believe in creative visualization.
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.
How to Draw a Picture (XII)
Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.
Drawing is the probity of art. To draw does not mean simply to reproduce contours; drawing does not consist merely of line: drawing is also expression, the inner form, the plane, the modeling. See what remains after that.
I plot my ascent daily.
Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures ... let that be our motto.
We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.
When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.
I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast ... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.
To figure out a strange plot, look at what happens, then ask who benefits.
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
Life plots elegantly.
Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
Draw lines - draw a lot of lines
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.
Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.
Character is plot, plot is character.
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
Maps, contour maps and all maps, intrigue us for the metaphors that they are: tools to give us a sense of something whose truth is far richer but without which we would perceive nothing and never find our bearings.
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
Time is the metre, memory the only plot.
Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself.
Spy plots are hard, really hard.
The plot thickens ... I didn't even know we had a plot on this trip.
I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.
The contour eludes me.
Visualization: daydreaming with a purpose.
Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.
Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.
While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with.
Instead of playing Draw Something, fucking draw something
A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.
We were just looking at maps...Maps-- Rick Riordan
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is ... My process is a bit messier.
I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page but a line that says x = whatever it is that is wrong with me.
Thank you, Professor Weston... - How about those ellipses? Did they fit there)
- Gillian
Life is not a plot; it's in the details.
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
Plots are for dead people.
In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.
This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.
Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the epic struggle of creation, is the inner fight of the individual whereby the soul builds up character.
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.
PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
Get your calculators out, this will be fun!
Algebraic!
--Finn, Adventure Time
Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.
Art is fire plus algebra.
What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it ... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.
For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
[Plot is] the gradual perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium.
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.
It is in the world of things and places, times and troubles and turbid
processes, that mathematics is not so much applied as illustrated.
If you can't draw something, just draw it.Draw-- Dieter Roth
The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.
I was told there would be no math
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.