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Quotes About Form

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.
~ Blake Mycoskie
Individual; that means he has his own special way to communicate, which creates the form of him. In the information age, this expression and communication has become so different.
~ Ai Weiwei
I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that, he said desperately. But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked. What's wrong with being natural? he demanded. Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all.
~ Piers Anthony
There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both.
~ Plato
The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
~ Plato
O que digo é que é pela beleza em si que as coisas belas são belas.
~ Plato
but that tenderness is a vain form of pity
~ Dean Koontz
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
~ Delmore Schwartz
he'd never believed that power, in any shape or form, was anything more than the intemperate protrusion on the egomaniacal heart. Since all egomaniacs were insecure to their frightened cores, they this weilded power barbarically so the world would not find them out
~ Dennis Lehane
But my foster mother never explained to me that there can be a deep loneliness in modern sanity too. That madness can be its own form of solace.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
With vivid memories of the last IRS form, I had signed, I agreed sympathetically that a two percent tax rate was a positive outrage, wondering to myself just what had become of the fiery spirit of American taxpayers over the intervening two hundred years.
~ Diana Gabaldon
There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.
~ Debra Granik
It happens to attackers that they have a longer or shorter period where they are not always efficient.
~ Didier Deschamps
For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.
~ Pranav Mistry
We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.
~ Gutzon Borglum
Differentiation separates, but it also gives us the chance for reunification. Separation gives us the chance to truly value the experience of oneness, in much the same way that both light and shadow are needed to create the perception of form. If we had simply kept oneness from the beginning of time, there would have been no chance to choose oneness through our own free will, which is the choice we have to make right now.
~ Ilchi Lee
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form.
~ Isidore Isou
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
~ Italo Calvino
It is pointless trying to decide whether Zenobia is to be classified among happy cities or among the unhappy. It makes no sense to divide cities into these two species, but rather into another two: those that through the years and the changes continue to give their form to desires, and those in which desires either erase the city or are erased by it.
~ Italo Calvino
If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognise my moods in the motionless suffering of things.
~ Italo Calvino
No, memory is true as long as you do not set it, as long as it is not enclosed in a form.
~ Italo Calvino