Quotes About Form

Architecture is art, nothing else.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

Each body has its art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.