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Quotes About Form

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Because the practice of writing is, then, a laying down of flowers upon flowers, it may be regarded as an exteriorization of what the imagining mind does, and of what it was doing long before it invented this external form of itself.
~ Elaine Scarry
No podía dormir: había presencias extrañas en torno a su casa, como si un maleficio lanzado contra él y su familia desde hacía muchos siglos hubiera empezado a tomar forma aquella noche.
~ Elena Garro
Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
~ Elizabeth Peters
The knowing consciousness is a form of the social consciousness, and should not therefore be viewed in isolation from psychology and human history.
~ Alfred Schmidt
Man can work only as nature does, that is by changing the form of matter.
~ Alfred Schmidt
It is often argued that the British left is the main perpetrator of this form of antisemitism.
~ Ali Rattansi
I have always believed in not compromising the form the drama takes by underestimating what its natural potential offers.
~ Ali Smith
It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.
~ Ali Smith
An idea is a being incorporeal, which has no subsistence by itself, but gives figure and form unto shapeless matter, and becomes the cause of manifestation.
~ Alice A Bailey
The magic in any art is not only in its technique but in its authenticity. Truth in its rawest form is what resonates most powerfully.
~ Alicia Keys
Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
~ Allen Tate
Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into a more mobile form—like maybe a watch or necklace.)
~ Ally Carter
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
~ Alton Brown
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
~ Alvar Aalto
Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.
~ Lawrence Wright
All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
~ Vera Wang
One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.
~ Neri Oxman
The e-wallet allowed anyone with a valid e-mail ID to send and receive money from just about anybody, or to settle bills through money stored online in safe systems. All it needed was registration on the e-purse providers website by filling out a simple form.
~ Sucheta Dalal
IPL is something... it's where we polish our skills and be in form, but ODI and T20I are totally different.
~ Bhuvneshwar Kumar
In Mexico, I think I'm considered conservative. Not politically - in terms of form and experimentation.
~ Alvaro Enrigue
I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm like a Casanova of music. I can't seem to settle down with one musical form.
~ Todd Rundgren
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
~ Brad Holland
The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.
~ Gus Van Sant