Quotes About Form

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up - or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object.

To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly. For God, whosoever he be (if haply there be any other but the world itself), and in what part soever resident, all sense He is, all sight, all hearing: He is the whole of the life and of the soul, all of Himself.

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.

I have a recognizable silhouette.

I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.

The fashion game is fun for architects to play and diverting for the public to watch, but it's deadly for building users. When the height of fashion moves on, they're the ones left behind, stuck in a building that was designed to look good rather than work well, and now it doesn't even look good.

The term 'love' was defined in an authoritative dictionary of psychology as 'a form of mental illness not yet recognised in the standard diagnostic manuals'.

We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.

Philosophy is an art form—art of thought or thought as art

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.

Quando faço uma fotografia, escreve Siskind, quero que seja um objeto onovo, completo e autosuficiente, cuja condição básica é a ordem. Para Cartier-Bresson, tirar fotografias é encontrar a estrutura do mundo, deleitar-se com o prazer puro da forma, revelar que em todo este caos, há ordem.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

The effort to identify the enemy as singular in form is a reverse-discourse that uncritically mimics the strategy of the oppressor instead of offering a different set of terms.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

He could just barely make out her form in the path about ten yards ahead of him. Her hair was so fair it captured what little moonlight hung in the darkness and glowed like a halo.

You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!

As an actor, your body is an instrument.