Form Quotes

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism and overwork.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

There's always stress involved in any genre or art form, there's always going to be a struggle. If there's no struggle, you wouldn't do anything. What are you going do? Retire?

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.

Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

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

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

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

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

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?