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Quotes About Form

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
~ Gregory Maguire
Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
~ Jacques Barzun
I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.
~ Unknown
Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.
~ John Updike
Tragedy is the highest form of art.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
~ Laura Benanti
There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.
~ Neil Gaiman
Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
~ Pauline Kael
Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.
~ Pieter Hugo
There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.
~ Robbie Williams
... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.
~ Robert Musil
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.
~ Rose Bird
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
~ Russell Simmons
[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.
~ Sam Shepard
There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
~ Sydney Pollack
The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.
~ T Bone Burnett
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
~ William Cowper
Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.
~ Unknown
Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
~ Shannon L. Alder
When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.
~ Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
Dance is moving sculpture.
~ Unknown