Quotes About Form

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.

Copyright is fundamentally socialist - it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing?

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

the physical substrate for thinking, the neural system, but the very fact that it has the form of a network implies that thought also has graph structure. This in turn suggests that language and its grammars,

the physical substrate for thinking, the neural system, but the very fact that it has the form of a network implies that thought also has graph structure. This in turn suggests that language and its grammars, evolved later, also should be expressed in terms of graphs.

Through the application of morphisms, objects are said to be enformed: "the active imposition of a form on an object by the knowing subject. In a derived sense, the same word designates…the fact that some knowledge content is subsumed under a well-defined form" (Piaget et al., 1990/1992, p.

When an idea is preserved, isn't its form unimportant.

Form betrays. Form can betray. What matter, if the eternal meaning retains its true value.

If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

The problem of postmodernism and film thus smuggles in with it the problem of modernism in film, or, in other words, the dialectic of modernism and mass culture, in which cinematic entertainments are usually regarded as a low cultural form.

For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

Consumption seems to be our favorite high, our nationally sanctioned addiction, the all-American form of substance abuse.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

The foundation of beauty is the body.