Quotes About Form

We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.

I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.

The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.

I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it.

Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.

I feel that music is such an inspirational form of energy, as baseball is. And especially with Metallica, believe it or not, our shows are very physical. Sports is a very physical thing, too.

When I shoot, I'm square with the rim.

I support a constitutional conversation, as the Labour Party does, which will allow New Zealanders to evolve a more mature and stable constitutional form, but that's not something that I, as Labour Party, would want to impose, either on the party or on the public.

I've always said that to win the Champions League, you need to reach a certain stage in good form and with good fitness levels.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.