Quotes About Form

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Form is difficult. You can't predict form, it is up and down for any player.

Audiences know the form in their bones, they know that romantic comedies end in an uplifting way.

People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.

Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

You know it's going to hurt, you know you are going to struggle, but you Have to work on your form, stay upright, the sooner you get there the sooner the pain is over.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws