Quotes About Form

We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially in Chile and Argentina.

Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It's also a form of peaceful protest, the right to which is another one of our values.

It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Uma flor acaso tem beleza? Tem beleza acaso um fruto? Não: têm cor e forma E existência apenas.

Where there is form there is a soul.

Only Tedium, which is a form of aloofness, and Art, which is a form of scorn, gild our [life] with a semblance of contentment.

The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires a more massive energy.

Big forms fascinate me.

Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.

Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

I look at the feminine body as a piece of art.

I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.

Jazz is a racist musical form invented by whites to enslave blacks.

A bargainer is a black who enters the American, the white American mainstream by saying to whites in effect, in some code form, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.