Forms Quotes

• A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

  

  Charles Ferguson
  • People
  • Change
  • Addiction

• I've been creating in some capacity forever. It was always usually painting and drawing, but I've been exploring more video and sculpture in recent years. But they're all kind of the same thing to me, in a way. They're all forms of production and output. As a creative person, sometimes you can't live without creating or producing something.

  

  Chloe Wise
  • Creating
  • Production
  • Creative Person

• Out of limitations, new forms emerge.

  

  Georges Braque
  • Limitations
  • Forms
  • Emerge

• Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.

  

  Adi Shankara
  • Space
  • Diverse
  • Forms

• Let a million cultural flowers bloom! Spark an explosion of rich, creative, diversified, and exciting art in all its forms.

  

  Clara Fraser
  • Art
  • Cultural
  • Bloom

• An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

  

  George Mikes
  • Alone
  • Forms
  • Englishman

• Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Blood
  • Forms
  • Liable

• Our methods of communication with our fellow men take many forms. We share with other animals the ability to transmit information by such diverse means as the posture of our bodies, by the movements of our eyes, head, arms, and hands, and by our utterances of non-specific sounds. But we go far beyond any other species on earth in that we have evolved sophisticated forms of pictorial representation, elaborate spoken and written languages, ingenious methods of recording music and language on discs, on magnetic tape and in a variety of other kinds of code.

  

  George Wells Beadle
  • Communication
  • Information
  • Forms

• Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

  

  Garth Greenwell
  • Important
  • Literature
  • Someone

• Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.

  

  Gaspard Monge
  • Represent
  • Geometry
  • Description

• Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance of itself; it merely makes movement evident. Therefore, the simplest, most customary, most unobtrusive forms suffice.

  

  George Rickey
  • Design
  • Movement
  • Forms

• If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.

  

  Michael Nielsen
  • Knowledge
  • Scientists
  • Journal

• Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps.

  

  Itay Talgam
  • Life
  • Creativity
  • Forms

• There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Art
  • Control
  • Ideas

• It may be asked, why there cannot be one and the same path for all? Because He reveals Himself in infinite ways and forms - verily, The One is all of them.

  

  Anandamayi Ma
  • Path
  • Ways
  • Forms

• There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moments

• I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

  

  Richard Roeper
  • Playing
  • Forms

• Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.

  

  Stan Smith
  • Forms
  • Negatives
  • Positives

• I've loved all forms of animation.

  

  Ming-Na Wen
  • Loved
  • Animation
  • Forms

• I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.

  

  Denise Duhamel
  • Reading
  • Write
  • Impossible

• When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

  

  Niels Diffrient
  • Design
  • Imagine
  • Forms

• Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Forms

• Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

  

  August Weismann
  • Individual
  • Line
  • Forms

• There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.

  

  Michael Pryor
  • Technology
  • Invented
  • Forms

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