Quotes About Form

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star.

We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level. And it's also somewhat of a challenge to see how that can be done with materials and objects that really are not emotional, in and of themselves.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

The USSR model was never a serious threat to anyone's bottom line. People blow up over Germany because, for all its left-wing bent, it may be a more plausible form of capitalism than ours.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form of cognitive dissonance.

To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form form of cognitive dissonance.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;

security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expence and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Monarchy and succession have laid (not this or that kingdom only) but the world in blood and ashes. 'Tis a form of government which the word of God bears testimony against, and blood will attend it.

1. Accounting Entity The accounting entity is the business unit (regardless of the legal business form) for which the financial statements are being prepared. The accounting entity principle states that there is a "business entity" separate from its owners … a fictional "person" called a company for which the books are written.

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.

We have kept the form, but lost the meaning.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.