Quotes About Form

High-functioning patients are those who can form relationships, manage adult responsibilities, and have a capacity for self-reflection.

If it's what your body was designed to do, it's probably not bad form. And if the exercise requires you to do something unnatural, you should think twice before doing it.

Form ever follows function.

Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, "Where do the clothes and accessories come from?"

Some composers are just interested in music as form. I am much more interested in the formational aspect, in music as a process.

Walter was a powerful lord in Burgundy, who, in his earliest youth, had been smitten with the charms of the fair Brunhilda, a beauty far surpassing in loveliness all her rivals; for her tresses, dark as the raven face of night, streaming over her shoulders, set off to the utmost advantage the beaming lustre of her slender form, and the rich dye of a cheek whose tint was deep and brilliant as that of the western heaven:

How is it that in childhood everything new that caught my interest had an aura of the uncanny, since according to all the authorities the uncanny is not some new thing but a thing known returning in a different form, become a revenant?

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Design has to work. Art does not.

Design is art that people use.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?