No Form Quotes

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

Capitalism is an art form.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Always stand by form against force.

Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.

Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that.

I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.