Form Quotes
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I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
William Morris
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
Joseph Roux -
A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable
Daniel Johns Silverchair -
I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
Rand Paul -
I've been working in theater, really, since about 1965. I started working with the Mabou Mines about then, and in a way I've always worked in the theater, but it's never been a main part of my work. And it wasn't until Einstein that I kind of shifted into high gear with theater, working with Bob, with Bob Wilson. And since then I find it a very attractive form to work in. It's just an extension of my work.
Philip Glass -
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.
Aristotle
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Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets – perhaps about 30% of them are planet – builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!
Garik Israelian -
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow -
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
Aristotle -
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde -
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle -
Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.
Charles G. Dawes
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Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?
Bruce Sterling -
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Danica McKellar -
any form of international presence requires the agreement of the government of Yugoslavia.
Igor Ivanov -
And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.
Walter Scott -
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
Beverly Sills -
Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
Brian Tracy
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Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
Eileen Wilks -
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career.
Bette Midler -
The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.
Terry Eagleton -
Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
Vincent Van Gogh