47 Origami Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous origami quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational origami quotes. Hopefully, these origami quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your origami knowledge!
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Famous Origami Quotes
The art of drawing is the art of omission. — Max Liebermann
The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization. — James Cash Penney
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. — Yoshio Taniguchi
Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer — Sarah Kay
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier
The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. — George Nelson
Architecture is invention. — Oscar Niemeyer
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail. — Michael Kenna
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move. — Pierre Cardin
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time. — Antony Garrett Lisi
Not all who fold their hands, are praying. — Swedish Proverbs
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. — Yukio Mishima
Under a cherry tree, all burdens of life fly away! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Short Origami Quotes
- I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world. — Sadako Sasaki
- She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams — Lauren Beukes
- I finally figured out how to read origami directions. — Zooey Deschanel
- I have more folds than an origami convention. — Roscoe Arbuckle
- An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use. — J. G. Ballard
- Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane? — Rachel Caine
- Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Susan Stinson
- Origami may someday even save a life. — Robert Lang
- Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami. — Linda Barnes
People Writing About Origami
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 James Cash Penney |
70 | 759 |
 Sarah Kay |
69 | 747 |
 Le Corbusier |
40 | 4159 |
 George Nelson |
9 | 247 |
 Oscar Niemeyer |
46 | 408 |
 Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
211 | 1533 |
More Origami Quotes
Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf. — Cassandra Clare
My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite. — Akira Yoshizawa
I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start. — Roz Chast
You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both. — Michael Scofield
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one. — Tom Waits
After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside. — Zooey Deschanel
Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami. — Feist
I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why. — Ani Difranco
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less. — David Nicholls
One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively light because it doesn't have gravity to deal with. — Stewart Brand
I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets. — Adam Richman
The secret to productivity in so many fields - and in origami - is letting dead people do your work for you. — Robert Lang
Yeah, the Mac Life... it's about sipping some tea, getting together with the knitting circle. You know I like origami, right? That's how you get to be notorious. — Conor McGregor
I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants buttoned. One more pregnancy and I'd be doomed to elastic waists for the rest of my life. — Ayelet Waldman
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