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Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning. By Robert Adams Form Beautiful Fear Meaning Confront

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything. By Bill Watterson Form Function Architects Pictures Words

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and retain its proper meaning. Conversely, the form of the body is spirit, and this is what makes the human being a person. By Pope Benedict Xvi Body Human Spirit Form Term

Architecture is not about form By Peter Zumthor Architecture Form

The formless cannot be based on the form. The form needs to be based on the formless. By John De Ruiter Based Formless Form

Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind. By Meher Baba Eternity Mind Truth Energy Form

.....every form puts a limit on mystery By Jalaluddin Rumi Mystery Form Puts Limit

Without form, communication stops ... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in. By Gerhard Richter Form Communication Stops Rightly Things

Form follows finances instead of function. By Ira Flatow Form Function Finances

Film is not a form, it has forms By Ritwik Ghatak Film Form Forms

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used. By Klaus Krippendorff Form Make Sense Understood

Form, which should be the clean-cut expression of mechanical excellence, has become sensuous and organic. By Raymond Loewy Form Excellence Organic Cleancut Expression

I think the story is my form. By Joseph Epstein Form Story

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form? By J.m. Barrie Form Disquieting Reflection Bad Good

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form. By Idries Shah Truth Form People Important Find

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. By Asger Jorn Form Substance Painting Life Expression

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter. By Swami Vivekananda Matter Form Combination Force

There's a reason why the form was originally silent By David Henry Hwang Silent Reason Form Originally

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us. By Maya Lin Interested Formmaking World

Art is nothing without form. By Gustave Flaubert Art Form

In pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten fingers on which men learned to count, that is, to carry out the first arithmetical operation, may be anything else, but they are certainly not only objects that can be counted, but also the ability to exclude all properties of the objects considered other than their number-and this ability is the product of a long historical evolution based on experience. Like the idea of number, so the idea of form is derived exclusively from the external world, and does not arise in the mind as a product of pure thought. By Friedrich Engels Imaginations Mathematics Deal Creations Mind

Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there. By Paula Rego Forms Thing Escapes Give Substance

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable. By Rudolf Arnheim Form Pleasurable Considered Mere Spice

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time. By Alfred Russel Wallace Modification Time Form Admitted Matter

For me, form is something I locate in the process of writing the poems. What I mean is, I start scribbling, and then try to form the poem - on a typewriter or on my computer - and, by trial and error, try to find the right shape. I just try to keep forming the poem in different ways until it feels right to me. By Matthew Zapruder Poem Form Locate Process Writing

Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work. By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Create Time Form Nature Task

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment. By Meredith Monk Form Moment Start Worrying

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic. By Caio Fonseca World Forms Abstractions Things Real

Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life. By Karl Ove Knausgaard Death Form Life Novelist Obligation

You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form. By John Updike Reader Interested Imagine Pointless Storytelling

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness. By Eckhart Tolle Sutra Heart Buddhist Emptiness Form

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content. By Robert Smithson Questions Content Form Hopelessly Inadequate

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical. By Robert Pinsky Form Forms Love Interested Line

This is the study of the whole realm of Forms, working out in full detail all the relationships in which the various ones of them stand to one another. So the rise to full life, in our self-absorption into our intellectual origins and natures, is itself an exercise of philosophy, of philosophy at its essential core of active knowledge of Forms. By John M. Cooper Forms Working Full Study Realm

Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling. By Herbert Read Sincere Form Prepared Feeling Artist

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. By Richard Rogers Form Times Profit Aesthetic Principle

Simplicity is a most complex form By Duke Ellington Simplicity Form Complex

It may happen that we do not always want the most beautiful form, but one of our own designing. By Shirley Hibberd Form Designing Happen Beautiful

The form came out of the function because it is for the audience that already knows the show, while hoping to get a new audience, too. By Mitchell Hurwitz Audience Show Form Function Hoping

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art. By Roy Lichtenstein Architecture Form Kind Forming Result

As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object. By Haruki Murakami Explaned Form Object Conceptual Metaphysical

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them change them and are changed. By Frank Bidart Fill Changed Preexisting Forms Change

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs. By Fred Tomaselli Form Senses Eyeballs Primacy Notion

Always stand by form against force. By John Ruskin Force Stand Form

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Pleasantly Long Subject Palpitation Prior

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created. By Ida Pauline Rolf Unity Coin Form Function Sides

In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material. By Bonnie Jo Campbell Form Quickly Material Focus Regular

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form ... By Martin Buber Sacrifice Form Endless Possibility Offered

Death is the mother of forms. By Octavio Paz Death Forms Mother

Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside. By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Form Formalism Goal Ends Inside

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. By Haruki Murakami Form Choose Rule

One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form. By Henry Moore Thing Technique Consciously Important Form

appeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present By Mark Twain Appeared Form Present Purpose

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness By Jack Kerouac Emptiness Form Realize

In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are. By Colin Gunton Form Alienation Desire Impose World

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right ... By Paula Rego Gaps Forms Worry Spaces

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from. By Alexander Calder Universe Thereof Work Underlying Sense

Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design, in such incredible surroundings that they sparkle with a sudden wondrous poetry. By Milan Kundera Forms Fortuitously Design Poetry Ugly

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. By Bruce Lee Form Adapt Grow Water Set

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong. By Idries Shah Belong Forms Changed Centuries Obedience

Without a need to constantly remain attached to ideas and beliefs, the clarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself - with nothing to confirm or ever deny. By Matthew Kahn Beliefs Deny Constantly Remain Attached

I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing. By Stella Young Australia Forms Fortuitous Millionish Ticking

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still. By La Monte Young Form Time Stasis Aspects Interested

I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty. By Richard Jefferies Method Beauty Form Human Find

In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art. By Alvar Aalto Form Dozens Elements Harmony Task

oldest of all forms By David Mccullough Oldest Forms

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them. By Ellsworth Kelly Sense Geometric Forms Interact Exist

What I have always found most comforting about these forms is the trace of hope I get as I'm filling them out. How they break your life down into such tidy realms, making each seem tractable, because discrete, in a way they never are beyond the white noise of the waiting room. You get that fleeting sense that you're on the verge of being understood, truly and fully, and for the first time, if you could just get it all down in black and white before the receptionist calls your name. By Adam Haslett Found Comforting Forms Trace Hope

Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience. By Walter J. Phillips Drawing Form Experience Representation Graphic

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done. By Michel De Montaigne Man Illformed Form Portray Make

I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Forms Foolish Declaim Christ Bodies

The form is always the measure of the obsession. By Alberto Giacometti Obsession Form Measure

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. By Pablo Picasso Art Lies Forms Point View

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. By Wayne Dyer Make Form Happen Order Visualization

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant. By Andre Gide Pay Form Emotion Attention Spontaneously

As a rule, one should never place form over content. By Manuel Puig Rule Content Place Form

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form. By Bryant H. Mcgill Complete Form Empty Void Defines

In submission, I find control. By Red Phoenix Submission Control Find

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,The bended knee, the eye uplift; is allWhich men need render; all which God can bear.What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,A crow upon the sky. By Philip James Bailey God Faith True Knee Uplift

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks. By Ernest Newman Form Jazz Tricks Collection Tags

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes. By E. M. Forster Form Vanishes Sensitiveness

The love of form is a love of endings. By Louise Gluck Love Endings Form

When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style. By Bruce Lee Form Art Reached Maturity Formless

To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me. By Gautam Gambhir Game Form Runs Scoring Feel

As what you first are moves in the context of form, you have real reflection within that form, real reflection of what you are, what you are being and what you are doing. The movement in form enables you to comprehend what you are. By John De Ruiter Real Reflection Form Moves Context

What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms. By Neri Oxman Process Bring Engineering Design Incorporating

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. By Henri Matisse Abstraction Essentials Greater Completeness Attained

Reality is blocked by form and image. By Rumi Reality Image Blocked Form

We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form. By Max Beckmann Wild Pan Face Hand Man

Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression. By Martha C. Nussbaum Conception Finding Fit Expression Form

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions. By Eva Zeisel Form Follow Production Process Designer

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design? By Michael Hansmeyer Bias Preconceptions Design Kind Forms

course, but it was more for form than from By J.d. Robb Form

There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks. By Burne Hogarth Ovoid Column Spatulate Forms Egg

Fragments are the only forms I trust. By Donald Barthelme Fragments Trust Forms

The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end. By Jesse Kellerman Beginning Mystery End Form Helpful

All of our thoughts have Form By Alexander Form Thoughts

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance By James Madison Governments Forms Substance Great Established

There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. By Wendell Berry Muse Inspiration Realization Muses Desires

The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development. By Gae Aulenti Experiences Development Conscious Principle Design