Best 2113 quotes in «form quotes» category

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

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.

It's not just hip-hop that's dead. Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good.

It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there

I've always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

I've always maintained that it isn't the form that's going to make the difference. It isn't the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it's human beings that will make it.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

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

I've got plenty of love in my life already in the form of my sons and a few good friends who I value dearly.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

I've loved all forms of animation.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

I wanted to explore sound, rather than composition and form.

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of revolt, and can even understand some forms of property crime.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.