Quotes About Form

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube.

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Well, what is God, then? God is that which watches. God is neither masculine nor feminine, although God can assume any form. God is that eternal reality that is in everything.

Architect is the father of all artists

The truly noble heart sacrifices itself for others' good, to defend the weak and the good against evil. To a heart like this, a heart devoted to chivalry, courage is a matter of form.

To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify God is to reveal his character by being who we were created to be-the embodiment of the image of God in human form.

evil is a force and, like the physical and chemical forces, we cannot annihilate it; we may only change its form. We light upon one evil and hit it with all the might of our civilization, but only succeed in scattering it into a dozen of other forms

Whatever appears (form and so on) is empty; whatever is empty appears (as form and so on). Therefore, for as long as the dharmadh?tu, the union of appearance and emptiness, free from the thirty-two misconceptions, is not realized, this is not yet the authentic prajñ?p?ramit?.

an insidious form of pride had crept into my heart and taken up residence: the pride of suffering. p 297

The thought that something we cannot see, of unsurpassable skill and unimaginable form, exists in the back room's locked safe—isn't this, for any artist, for any person, an irresistible hope, beautiful and disturbing as the distant baying of Thoreau's lost hound that tells us, not least, that the mysteries of distance are endless?

Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought." However strong his opinions and theories, Bash?'s primary allegiance was to the living moment and its accurate, full-hearted presentation. Of the formal requirements of haiku, he said, "If you have three or four, even five or seven extra syllables but the poem still sounds good, don't worry about it. But if one syllable stops the tongue, look at it hard.

la justicia no es sólo cuestión de fondo. Sobre todo, es cuestión de forma.

Algo que se repite —dijo—, algo que permanece durante varios años, curiosa forma de superficialidad. Entonces fue Southworth quien le