Quotes About Form

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.

Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.

Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

I pick first my best team, and my captain from that team and I only pick players that are on form.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives

A car designer is really a sculptor.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

essential form

The soul is the form of the body and the body is the matter of the soul, somewhat as the meaning of a book is its form or soul and the words are its matter or body.

Nonfiction at its best is like fashioning a cabinet. It can never be a sculpture. It can be elegant and very beautiful, but it can never be sculpture. Captive to facts - or predetermined form - it cannot fly.

Yet causing imperceptible harm at a distance by the release of waste gases is a completely new form of harm, and so we lack any kind of instinctive inhibitions or emotional response against causing it. We have trouble seeing it as harm at all.

nor that she saw them as human-formed only because her eyes expected to. If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling.

Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form of character analysis, all the contempt they have been harbouring for you for all these years?

Lewis said, "Reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."[3] He was saying that stories can align reason with imagination and mind with emotion. When truth is put in imaginative form, it can be driven not only into the mind but also into the heart.