Form Quotes
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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.
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I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition.
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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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.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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Printing money is merely taxation in another form.
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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.
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Gossip is the worst form of judging.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Time and space are only forms of thought.
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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.
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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.
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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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.
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I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.
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Energy cannot be destroyed. It just takes on different forms.
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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
