Quotes About Form

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

The sense of form in New Mexico is for me one of the profoundest, most original, and most beautiful I have personally experienced. It must be 'learned.' . . . It is not a country of light on things. It is a country of things in light.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression.

Stone waited there in groundling form, his opaque expression somehow conveying a deep disgust with all of them, but especially Moon.

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being..

Thus even Christ, though Lord of all things, was yet made of a woman; made under the law; at once free and a servant; at once in the form of God and in the form of a servant.

Matter gave birth to passion that is without form, because it comes from what is contrary to nature, and then confusion arose in the whole body. That is why I told you, Be of good courage.7 And if you are discouraged, be encouraged in the presence of the diversity of forms of nature.8

The attendants of the bridal chamber have only one name, and that is rest. When they are together, they need no other form, [for they are in] contemplation…perception. They are superior…among those in…the glories of glories….

Writing something down cannot change in any significant way our mental representation of it, for it is the mental representation that gives birth to the written form, not vice versa.

The saints thus receive qualities that are forbidden to man, and these qualities are owed precisely to the fact that man is capable of loving and the ultimate form of love is the Holiness.

For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress

Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, thats all. You cant see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end. Love doesnt.

Death isn't a curse. It's the shadow that gives life its form, and that shadow's whispering to me now.

form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

Compassion is truth in its purest form.

The object of art is to give life a shape

And I walked across the gravel, towards the road and somewhere in the universe of my soul a fiery, life-giving star collapsed, and a very black hole began to form.

somewhere in the universe of my soul a fiery, life-giving star collapsed, and a very black hole began to form.