Form Quotes

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.

Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that.

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

It feels amazing and beautiful that music can have such an importance on the way that people form social groups. Music can change people. People can change the world.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.

If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a strong bond with books.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give it an easy form, cheap, safe, and sure, as public amusements are.

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.

Wisdom is infused into every form.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.