Form Quotes
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I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Norman Granz
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There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.
Shirley Chisholm
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I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
Ray Bradbury
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All great art is a visual form of prayer.
Wendy Beckett
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Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
will.i.am
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I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.
Simon Baker
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We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.
Naum Gabo
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The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment as a painter - my energy, my arm, my eyes, my sense of space and form and time. It's a wonderful realm for me. I never leave it.
Carolee Schneemann
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
Rita Mae Brown
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I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.
Will Self
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I'd like to start some form of city-type commune.
Murray Head
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Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.
Sherman Alexie
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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
William S. Burroughs
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Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.
Nobuyoshi Araki
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I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
Catherine Tate
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
Plato
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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .
John Milton
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A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.
Thomas Kinkade
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I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.
Nina Hagen
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As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance
William Shakespeare
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Most scary dreams bring something good which is not yet in a form the person can use.
Eugene Gendlin
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Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
Lucille Ball