Quotes About Form

I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

Nine out of nine architects start with a sketch, and then they say, 'What should we make it out of?' I start from the bottom up - what should it be made out of - and then I worry about what should it look like. The material, the color of the material, the way it feels, and the way you respond to it is every bit as valid as the form or the shape.

Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.

It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.

Desert is simply that: an ecstatic critique of culture, an ecstatic form of disappearance.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

Theory is never so fine as when it takes the form of a fiction or a fable.

Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose.

If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

My work is always very geometric.

Attractive things work better.

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).