Quotes About Form

Though games were barely acknowledged as a legitimate form of expression, let alone a legitimate art form, Tom was convinced that they were almost sublime forms of communication, just as films or novels. After

It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.

This was shortly after waking up one morning and realizing that government and god were interchangeable and that most of the people in the landscape of my birth insisted on having one or both determine the form of their lives.

Function must dictate form.

Since that moment one form of crisis has collided with another, and I am no more Stoic now than I was when I opened that ancient book.

The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.

I'm very interested in architecture.

My arm is so long, I kind of shoot over my head sometimes.

Once you appreciate an art form, you're open to everything.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

Movie, being an art form, should have artistic value and should do justice to the artistes.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

Manner is everything," an elegant translation of that judicial axiom: "Form over content.

Her beauty, which was really marvellous, came from extreme regularity of feature harmonizing with the proportions of the head and the body. This species of perfection augurs ill for the mind; and there are few exceptions to the rule. All superior nature is found to have certain slight imperfections of form which become irresistible attractions, luminous points from which shine vivid sentiments, and on which the eye rests gladly.

As in painting, so in poetry.

Signs of the purest form of human love: the love that has nothing to do with emotion or affection; the love that say we will treat each other kindly and respectfully, regardless of how we happen to feel about each other, because we know that's the only way a human community can thrive. p19 [Prologue: A Loving Country?]

Power comes from body position in the form of leverage at delivery and the wrist and hand motion at release.

What The Mysteries of Udolpho suggests is how a novel, by presenting phenomena before it present resolutions, can create an on-going, perhaps spurious, but nevertheless compelling dynamic between details which can undermine the ability of form to impose its particular tyranny on the reader's experience: there is a life in the novel which comes from within.

The ceaseless interplay of heaven and earth gives form to all things. The sexual union of male and female gives life to all things. This interaction of yin and yang is called the Way [Tao], and the resulting creative process is called change.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.

Cuando la gente cree que la forma es más importante que la verdad, no encontrarán la verdad, pero se quedarán con la forma.