Forms Quotes

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Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has… — Joan Miro
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form… — Georg Cantor
What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including… — Jean Piaget
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into… — Robert Greene
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading… — Mortimer Adler
As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more… — Frans de Waal
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. — Rudolf Carnap
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act… — Mary Caroline Richards
Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living… — Thomas Berry
My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untruthful,' I mean… — Gerhard Richter
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It… — Emile Durkheim
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the… — Otto Dix
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was… — Edvard Munch
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a… — Gianfranco Ferre
Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. — Stephen Jay Gould
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. — Constance Baker Motley
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the… — Christopher Dawson
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have… — Franz Boas
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I… — Dennis Lehane
The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms… — Francis Fukuyama

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