Form Quotes

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Pictures help you to form the mental mold.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.

Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.

All teens are in trouble in one form or another.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.