Quotes About Form

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature.

God is the Honey, organizations are the hives; both are necessary. Any form is useless, of course, without the spirit, but why should you not start busy hives full of the spiritual nectar?

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

bodily habits are the primary form in which human evil exists in practical life is

The life and words that Jesus brought into the world came in the form of information and reality.

There is then no question of the possibility of interventions in the course of nature, in whatever degree or form. The physical universe is not a closed system. Miracles are possible simply because of that fact.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

makeup that Langdon could see, her complexion appeared unusually smooth, the only blemish a tiny beauty mark just above her lips. Her eyes, though a gentle brown, seemed unusually penetrating, as if they had witnessed a profundity of experience rarely encountered by a person her age. 'Dr. Marconi doesn't speak much English,' she said, sitting down beside him, 'and he asked me to fill out your admittance form.' She gave

Leonardo da Vinci had gained his expertise in the human form by exhuming corpses and dissecting their musculature.

In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham's answer to God.

I'd already come to realize that the monologue was his favorite form of conversation.

Form serves us best when it works as an obstruction to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." —

The Spandakarika, "the chant of tremoring sacred vibration," one of the most beautiful and most profound Shaivist texts, says: "Tremoring Sacred Vibration, the very site of creation and return, is devoid of all limitation because its nature is devoid of form.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.?

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

The river's injury is its shape.

Without propriety of scale, and the acceptance of limits which that implies, there can be no form – and here we reunite science and art.

Lovely eyes in colour, lovely eyes in form — large and tender and quietly thoughtful — but beautiful above all things in the clear truthfulness of look that dwells in their inmost depths, and shines through all their changes of expression with the light of a purer and a better world.

Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feeling in a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in us some reverberation of that primordial delight which woman gives to man, or man to woman.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give significant form to the chaos of experience?