Quotes About Form

I think, basically, I am an actor. Sometimes I'm an actor who's writing and sometimes an actor who's directing, but I think if I'm forced to fill out a form for my tax return, 'actor' is the first thing I write down.

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

The history of country music is as important as any other art form.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work.

The one thing that I'm really obsessed with is multi-camera comedy. It is a form that is unique to network television.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

No audience likes a writer's opinion thrust down their gullet as simply a tract. It has to be dramatized and made acceptably palatable within a dramatic form.

It is in mathematics that our thinking processes have their purest form.

No hay en esta idea-forma del cuadrado nada personal ni evolutivo. Escapa, por emplear nuestro lenguaje moderno, de las variaciones subjetivas. El cuadrado de Pedro no difiere en nada del cuadrado de Pablo o de Diego. Única y objetiva, esta idea-forma es la misma para todos. Frente a millones de cosas cuadradas —existentes, desaparecidas o por venir—, existe una sola idea-forma de cuadrado y solo una.

Si percibimos cosas cuadradas es porque juzgamos que sus figuras corresponden a esta «forma» de la que tenemos conocimiento (en griego antiguo, «forma» se dice eidos, palabra de la que deriva nuestro vocablo «idea»).

Beneath our loquacious chatter, there is a silent language…Our common human language is not…something to do with vocal cords and speech. It is, rather, our sense of proportion, our balance, harmony and other aspects of simple and fundamental form.

Historiography therefore becomes a prelude to understanding history as a form of knowledge.

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts.

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing.

Es ist offenbar, dass auch eine von der wirklichen noch so verschieden gedachte Welt Etwas -- eine Form -- mit der wirklichen gemein haben muss.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

The form is the possibility of the structure.

It is easy to imagine a language consisting only of orders and reports in battle.--Or a language consisting only of questions and expressions for answering yes and no. And innumerable others.--And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

2.22 What a picture represents it represents independently of its truth or falsity, by means of its pictorial form.