Form Quotes
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.
I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.
One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.
In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.
Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.
Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form.
Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!
Paradise can take the form of anything! It can be a flower or it can be a word or it can just be a sincere smile!
Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.
I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.
If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's political revolution.
There are all kinds of different forms of public service, but there's no form of public service that can make more difference for more people than partisan political activity.
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.
Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.
When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.
To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.
I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.
Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness is captured in the laboratory.
It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.
I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.
I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.
The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too.
America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can collaborate with them, if they're willing to be responsible.
Maybe it's a form of overcompensation, but whenever I've toured, I've always needed a huge performance component.
We believe US threats of an approaching World War III and their use of Iran's nuclear issue as an excuse is another form of American insanity.
In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.
Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.