Form Quotes
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.
There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.
Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).
Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.
Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.
Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.
Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.
I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.
The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.
Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.
The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.
We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.
Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.
Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.
Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.
Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.
I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.
Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.
I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy.
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.