Quotes About Form

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. –

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What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

A poem should not mean/ but be.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the partciular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

The human body is the best work of art.

You are the Wing, I see it clearly," said a voice behind her. She whirled to see That Awful Man standing no more than a pace away. "And you are more than that," he said. "You are a houri, taunting me with your gray eyes and your delectable form!

Democracy is not a solution but a way of seeking solutions -- not a form of State devoted to this or that particular end...but a form of State devoted, whatever its end may be, to a single means and method of determining that end.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

It is a disservice to any form to elevate it as the form.

It is indeed The Story, and our task is to tell it, to form it, to fashion it—not to "organize" it.

But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.

One big pitfall to be avoided is the "potential trap." At all times you should force yourself to assess performance, not potential. By "potential" I mean form rather than substance.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

To zabawne, ?e próbuj?c upora? si? z czasem, zazwyczaj wracamy do minionego, do tego, co ukszta?towane, do gotowej formy. Wyobra?nia nie potrafi niczego wymy?li?. Zawieszona w pró?ni spada jak kamie? albo zajmuje si? sob?, co koniec ko?ców wychodzi na jedno.

Air, however, closed within a solid form, and space, shaped by vaulting, walls and architectural detail, becomes the most perfect representation of nostalgia. You can walk into it, feel its touch on your skin, but it all flows between your fingers, you can hold it in your lungs, but just for a moment.

Fear always accompanies the making of art, generated by the shock of seeing an idea taking its form. A sculpture in the mind is safe and secure--the actual work rarely behaves as intended.