Deform me to your likeness so that no one, after you, can…

“There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart. We were born with it,…

— Gerald May

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

— Baruch Spinoza

Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.”

— Kurt Schwitters

“Plants can be affected by stray voltage and they may show stunted growth, deformed growth, or go dormant. In extreme cases they may die.”

— Steven Magee

“Impression forms opinion, opinion deforms truth!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

“Your mental make-ups are the contents of your everyday thinking; they carry a charge that can either transform, reform or destroy you. Watch your…

— Israelmore Ayivor

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

— Chris Hedges

“Information leads to transformation. If you are not inspired by being informed, you will expire by becoming deformed!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and…

— Stacy Schiff

Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,…

— Isak Dinesen

“The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him.”

— Elizabeth George

“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He…

— Jacob Bronowski