Quotes About Forms

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.

The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the chase.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It's a land of higher ideals.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

There are few poets today who can equal, in their esthetic exploitation of language, in their depth of commitment to their medium, in their range of conceptual understanding, in the purity of their closed forms, the work of Nabokov, Borges, Beckett, Barth, Broch, Gaddis, or Calvino, or any of half-a-dozen extraordinarily gifted South Americans.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.