Form Quotes
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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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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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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.
Steve Schirripa
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Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.
Francis Chan
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Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.
L Peter Deutsch
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Vision is an intelligent form of thought
Andreas Gursky
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The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?
Christina Aguilera
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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
William Winwood Reade
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
Ajahn Chah
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
Ira Sachs
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All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.
T. H. White
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
Garry Winogrand
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How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!
William Shakespeare
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Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer.
Carl Orff
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No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.
D. H. Lawrence
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Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
Willem de Kooning
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Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.
William Whewell
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
Lyman Beecher
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I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
Morarji Desai
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
Adolf Loos
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
Baruch Spinoza