Form Quotes
You have to understand the vehicle, the form that allows you to do what you do, and why that is.
I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a concept and hold on to it until I come across the right music that makes a marriage.
A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products.
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
I'm not at all a linear thinker. I know the feeling I want to convey, but the form is what I struggle to find. I'm sure I'd fail if I tried to write a grant proposal or a book proposal.
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.
I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with.
Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine.
I have a bit of a struggle with some aspects of or forms of Buddhism, but Zen I find to be mainly congenial.
Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.
The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker.
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way.
To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas
It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.
There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.
Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.
The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259
An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.
The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.
(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.
A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.
I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.