Quotes About Form

Another friend said, I want to write sentences that seem as if no one wrote them. The goal being the creation of a pure delivery system, without the distraction of a style. The goal being a form no one notices, the creation of what seems like pure feeling, not of what seems like a vehicle for a feeling. Language as pure experience, pure memory. I too wanted to achieve that impossible effect.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

There are four elements to our passage, and they need to be put in outline form perhaps to see how this passage is put together: First, the claim of fulfillment (5:17). Second, an elucidation of the claim (5:18). Third, the consequences of the elucidated claim (5:19). Fourth, an elucidation of the consequences (5:20).

If God entered Abraham into the covenant by circumcision and demanded Abraham enter his son through circumcision, then it is clear that God thinks the best way to form children into the covenant faith is by way of birthright entrance into the covenant.

A book without spine or covers is like an unquiet spirit without mortal form. Whatever's left of it holds itself together out of sheer resentment, roaming without purpose, lashing out at whatever crosses its path.

Evolution of form is very much a matter of teaching very old genes new tricks!

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

We live in a time where everybody has an opinion and everyone's opinion can be featured somewhere, whether it's an online column and everybody has their form because of the internet.

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue--where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk--otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

appeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present

I am only interested in art that is in some way concerned with truth. I could not care less whether it is abstract or what form it takes.' …

From start to finish the potter takes hold of the impalpable void and brings it forth as the container in the shape of a containing vessel. The jug's void determines all the handling in the process of making the vessel. The vessel's thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds.

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form which his thoughts take, in other words, what it is that he has thought about it.

Forma dat rei essentiam, materia existentiam.

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