Quotes About Form

Form was not born from an idea. It was an idea vanishing.

A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre - Est une sculpture ?)

I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead.

Time and feeding had expanded that once romantic form; the black silk waistcoat had become more and more developed; inch by inch had the gold watch-chain beneath it disappeared from within the range of Tupman's vision; and gradually had the capacious chin encroached upon the borders of the white cravat: but the soul of Tupman had known no change—admiration of the fair sex was still its ruling passion.

Papa is a preferable mode of address', observed Mrs General. 'Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. You will find it serviceable, in the formation of a demeanour, if you sometimes say to yourself in company - on entering a room, for instance - Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism.

Love was made on these occasions in the form of bracelets;

The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.

It's a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you're feeling lucky you're really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you're not feeling lucky, they've got a clock at the bus station.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

VERS LIBRE. A device for making poetry easier to write and harder to read.

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

No evil equals no plot equals no movie equals no money. Thus the paradox: while we convince ourselves we are good (or at least not depraved), our most powerful art form is built upon the revelation that this is a lie.

Guarda tu l'acqua: perché dicono che è saggia? Perché prende la forma del vaso ove la si versa." "Anche il vino, mi pare!

Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.

For every new art form there's someone to come along and pronounce it dead, but rarely has an art form been born dead - as is the case with rock video, and its major outlet, MTV.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Il male si presenta sempre in qualche forma familiare.

There is but one God. True is His Name, creative His personality and immortal His form. He is without fear sans enmity, unborn and self-illumined. By the Guru's grace He is obtained.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

Pensate al cristallo che, massa amorfa, assume una forma regolare ubbidendo alle proprie immutabili leggi pur senza averne coscienza. Non potrebbe succedere lo stesso nel mondo dello spirito?

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

The explanation is that their science is only a very attenuated form of our universal ignorance.