Form Quotes
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And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.
Walter Scott
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
J. G. Holland
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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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My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.
Takashi Murakami
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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
Aristotle
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Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
Beverly Sills
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Printing money is merely taxation in another form.
Peter Schiff
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde
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I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.
John Popper
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Gossip is the worst form of judging.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
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Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
William James
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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
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Time and space are only forms of thought.
E. Nesbit
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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
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Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.
Wayne White
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'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
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I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.
Steve Martin
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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.
Jason Aldean
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It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
William Labov
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Energy cannot be destroyed. It just takes on different forms.
Yasmin Ahmad
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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
Vincent Van Gogh
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It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
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I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth