Quotes About Form

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

Every writing or expression on all subjects is an opinion, whatever it may be in any form, length, and dimensions.

He looked over the side of the boat, at the swirling blue water. It was deep here, infinitely deep, and alive with what seemed to be eternal life. But water had no fixed, determined form. Was it not because man had a fixed, determined form that he cannot possess eternal life? Does not true life begin only when tangible form has been lost? (Musashi---the Soul of the Deep)

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination.

forma de escuadra y un jardín lleno de plantas y de polvo. Allí no corre el tiempo: el aire quedó inmóvil después de tantas lágrimas.

It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.

Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be.

Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

You're not inhabiting the form anymore. Not too quick are you?" he said looking me in the eye.

Thus, then ... are the three differences which distinguish artistic imitation: the medium, the objects, and the manner.

In 2010 JCVI-syn1.0, the world's first artificial cellular life form, fired its molecular motors.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The primary factor is proportions.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

He could do nothing else but follow this intrinsically conservative tendency, conservative because tending towards a timeless and abstract canon of form, but nevertheless progressive in the stylistic situation of the time.

But if Cravaggio really is the first master of modern age to be slighted by reason of his artistic worth, then the baroque signifies an important turning point in the relationship between art and the public - namely, the end of the "aesthetic culture" which begins with the Renaissance and the beginning of the more rigid distinction between content and form in which formal perfection no longer serves as excuses for any ideological lapse.

of the Second Amendment: we are endowed with words as our most intimate and overlooked form of power; these are the arms we bear.

There's nothing more interesting than painting women, it's the greatest subject that can be.

The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.