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Quotes About Form

As round as appil was his face.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.
~ Georg Simmel
There should be no available ugly frames for beautiful souls to be hurried into by carelessness or mistake, and no ugly souls should be suffered to creep, like hermit-crabs, into beautiful shells never intended for them. The outward and visible form should mark the inward and spiritual grace;
~ George du Maurier
Drew sent for Rachel's SS-5, the form she completed when she applied for a Social Security account number.
~ George G. Morgan
Give me matter and i will build a world out of it.
~ Immanuel Kant
We have no reason for assuming the form of such a thing to be still partly dependent on blind mechanism, for with such confusion of heterogeneous principles every reliable rule for estimating things would disappear.
~ Immanuel Kant
iI Tempo non è altro che la forma dell'intuizione di noi stessi e del nostro stato interno
~ Immanuel Kant
Et træ eksistereri en træskikkelse, og derfor kan også mit liv, eller hele min families liv antage denne skikkelse.
~ Inger Christensen
The pointlessness of art is not the pointlessness of a game; it is the pointlessness of human life itself, and form in art is properly the simulation of the self-contained aimlessness of the universe.
~ Iris Murdoch
sculpture bore the relationship the truth did to falsehood... if a painter blundered, what did he do? He patched and repaired and covered over with another layer of paint. The sculptor on the contrary had to see within th marble the form that it held. He could not glue back broken parts.
~ Irving Stone
that little bit between each note — silences which give the form
~ Isaac Stern
In Chile we suffer from a particular form of hypocrisy. We act as if we're scandalized by any little peccadillo someone else commits at the same time that we are stacking up barbarous sins in private.
~ Isabel Allende
We have a zero tolerance policy here at Bellator when it relates to any form of domestic violence.
~ Scott Coker
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
~ Edwin Booth
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
~ Aldous Huxley
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
~ Robert A. M. Stern
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
~ Constantin Brancusi
I call architecture 'petrified music'.
~ Goethe
Form ever follows function.
~ Louis H. Sullivan
Architecture is frozen music.
~ Goethe
The object of art is to give life a shape.
~ Jean Anouilh
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
~ John Ruskin
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
~ August Strindberg
She is such a health food nut, she thinks a grape is wine in pill form.
~ Elmer Pasta