Quotes About Form

Years ago it was revealed to me that it is nonsense to pray for anything at all, because it isn't possible to get anything through prayer. The principle behind that is this: God is the substance of all form. Therefore, if you haven't God, you haven't the form; but if you have God, you have all the forms that God constitutes.

The very moment that any form becomes a necessity in our experience, we are placing our dependence, our happiness, and our joy in that, instead of in the Infinite Invisible which is the cause of the form, and we are idolaters. We

Up until I met these scientists, I thought that mind-wandering—what I was doing in Provincetown so much, and so pleasurably—was the opposite of attention, and that's why I felt guilty about doing it. I realized I was wrong. It is actually a different form of attention—and a necessary one.

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

I call architecture frozen music.

Poetry is not simply a fashion of expression: it is the form of expression absolutely required by a certain class of ideas. Poetry, indeed, may be distinguished from Prose by the single circumstance, that it is the utterance of whatever in man cannot be perfectly uttered in any other than a rhythmical form: it is useless to say that the naked meaning is independent of the form: on the contrary, the form contributes essentially to the fullness of the meaning.

A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form...

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

For, while selflessness is the law, to belittle self is a form of selfishness and not selfless. But putting the ideal in that which is the Way, know that if and when the Lord is with thee, ye are already in the great majority; ye are then glorifying the Lord, not attempting to justify self. For, justifying of self is blaming someone else.

Why must the plastic form make up the foundation of image consciousness?

For of the soul the body form doth take:For soul is form, and doth the body make.