Form Quotes

If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight.

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.

The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.

Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.

Europeans used to be proud to be the advanced form of democracy. Now they're definitely a little bit ashamed because we are seeing that finally, the bond that we had, it was money.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

I'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup?

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.

Content alone is propaganda; form alone is wallpaper.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

The colored planes, as much by position and dimension as by the greater value given to color, plastically express only relationships and not forms.

Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever.

Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.

In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

I will form good habits and become their slaves.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

When you feel colors, you will understand the why of their forms.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.