Quotes by category:Form

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms. by Francesca Lia Block

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

Francesca Lia Block

changed form pain

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, t... by Francis Crick

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.

double-standard combination form

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

Francisco Costa

fantastic form three

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is... by Francisco Goya

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

shadow form light

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and the... by Francois Delsarte

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

Francois Delsarte

form emotion art

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them a... by Frank Bidart

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.

changed form

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and d... by Francoise Sagan

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

Francoise Sagan

form would-be people

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

teenager form art

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

abuse form telling-the-truth

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is... by Frank Laubach

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

sleepy form devotion

There was certainly an old law code which stands behind the earliest form of Deuteronomy. Presumably that is what was lost.

Frank Moore Cross

form law lost

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

communication form writing

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque. by Frank Wedekind

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

gothic kitsch form

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

form facts firsts

The most important survival ability for any life form is the abil... by Frank Herbert

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

form survival important

Writing [is] a form of prayer. by Franz Kafka

Writing [is] a form of prayer.

form prayer writing

War is the most readily available form of chaos. by Frank Herbert

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

chaos form war

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes pred... by Fred Ritchin

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

repetitive primitive form

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

form believe art

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

fool events form