Quotes About Form

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is to be found here in concentrated form.

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher(when asked about completing his income tax form)

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Remark

The form of institutions and philosophies may change; but the substance that underlies them remains indestructible, because the nature of humanity remains unaltered.

così, senza saperlo, ereditiamo l'incapacità verso la tragedia, e la predestinazione alla forma minore del dramma.

Ideology is a form of cognition. Ideology can of course refer to doctrine, as in the Communist Manifesto, or to practice, as in the division of labor between husbands and wives. Here, however,

she shapes her surface lights into the shape of breasts.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Calvin said, "Jesus came down from Heaven but i never knew that he was a dove. i think about all those doves we killed with shotguns and Jesus could be in the form of a dove, flying around here on Earth. if we was to shoot him while he was a dove he would probably never forgive our sins.

All things need some degree of order; of substance, form and structure. Show me a storm or the most beautiful day without form, and I'll show you chaos and dissonance that is not unlike a symphony of wailing scorched cats.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.