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Quotes About Form

By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.
~ Socrates
Within you there is eternal life. This life arise as form and continues, instant by instant, appearing and disappearing. Moreover, this flickering, appearing and disappearing, is not the flickering of a solidified individual self; it is the sparkling appearance and disappearance of a fusion of the self and its surroundings, in union.
~ Soko Morinaga
SALVAGE To leave behind An outline, which then Becomes form. Held up, It is called beauty For the ability to contain What we did not know We wanted to know.
~ Sophie Cabot Black
Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form. Bangalore Ashram, India September 24, 1997
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Each week, I plan an assignment. Students, interrogate form down to the last comma. Students, broadcast the crimes of history.
~ Srikanth Reddy
So I was confounded, and converted: and I joyed, O my God, that the One Only Church, the body of Thine Only Son (wherein the name of Christ had been put upon me as an infant), had no taste for infantine conceits; nor in her sound doctrine maintained any tenet which should confine Thee, the Creator of all, in space, however great and large, yet bounded every where by the limits of a human form.
~ St. Augustine
words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.
~ Stanley Fish
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
~ Stanley Kubrick
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~ Stanton Delaplane
Aquella memoria sólo había podido ejercitarse y formarse de aquella manera diabólicamente infalible por medio del eterno secreto de cualquier perfección: la concentración.
~ Stefan Zweig
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated
~ Alan W. Watts
The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
~ William Saroyan
Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.
~ Meher Baba
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The truth will form and fall apart again.
~ Sarah Slean
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.
~ Billy Corgan
The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
~ Theodore Parker
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
~ Wole Soyinka
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
~ Ted Koppel
The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.
~ Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Remember this:  genre is the marriage of convention with invention.
~ Michael A. Arnzen