Form Quotes
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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.
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Forgiveness is a form of the highest love
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I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.
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The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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All my song writing starts in same form, I have so many scraps of choruses and verses and voice recordings and actual recordings, which then often conceptualises as a rhythmic and melodic and a delivery thing.
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I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.
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When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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Any form of art is a form of power.
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Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
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God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity.
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For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
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Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
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My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.
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There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
