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These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought… — Kenji Miyazawa
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain… — Edvard Munch
Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought… — Alexander Pope
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. — Lucretius
I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed. — Sidney Jourard
On the correctly formed pubescent girl, a Speedo looked wonderful. When it was wet, it was an incitement to riot. — Clive James
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around. — Wendell Berry
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin
Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to… — Chogyam Trungpa
An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention. — Joshua Reynolds
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can… — Paul Cezanne
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of… — Joshua Reynolds
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed… — Thorstein Veblen
Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not… — Anthony Trollope
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume… — Leo Steinberg
I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed… — Kazimir Malevich
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and… — William Graham Sumner
The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood than they would… — Teresa of Avila
My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it… — Joan Miro
We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We… — Anthony of Padua
She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed… — Saint Basil
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide. — Saint Basil
A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not… — Saint Basil

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