Form Quotes

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.

The only force that can sustain true and consistent courage is some form of spiritual belief that values like honor, duty, loyalty and integrity above the status, power, money and even security.

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Art is a form of catharsis.

Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.

To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance grew, as an art form.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.