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Quotes About Form

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
If wrestling can be considered an art form, then [Ric Flair] is using oils, and the many others merely water colors.
~ Ric Flair
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
~ Mark Rothko
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
~ Paul Daniels
Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.
~ Gordon Matta-Clark
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
~ Pablo Picasso
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
~ Philip Johnson
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
~ Sol LeWitt
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
~ Julia Morgan
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
~ Alexander Calder
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!
~ Roger Corman
To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
~ Vidal Sassoon
The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.
~ Eva Hesse
Art is not about something, Art is something
~ Sarah Bernhardt
When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.
~ Henry Moore
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
~ Chael Sonnen
A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself
~ Finn Juhl
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.
~ Auguste Rodin
Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.
~ Henri Matisse
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.
~ Etel Adnan