Form Quotes

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes.

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

Maybe it's weird, but I don't feel in any way, shape or form that I'm taking over his show.

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

As of now they are still very young so that has come in the form of dress up, make believe and singing songs, but we will always support our girls in their choices and help them to dream big.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

On current form, both teams will probably lose.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

I feel I'm in 2006 form to be honest. I hear a lot of comparisons to 2004, but I never changed. Last year was a struggle but I've worked hard. . . I'm not going back, I'm going forward.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

No more was seen the human form divine.

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.