Forms Quotes

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I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions. — Marshall McLuhan
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible… — Arthur Koestler
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… — Arthur Koestler
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. — Pablo Picasso
No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a… — Pablo Picasso
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. — Alexander Pope
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor… — Alexander Pope
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible. — Georges Braque
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth… — Henry Moore
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator. — Edmund Burke
This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms. — Sidney Jourard
In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct… — Auguste Rodin
Out of the formless the forms appear. — Mooji
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get… — Cennino Cennini
The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge... — Robert Bly
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good,… — Robert Motherwell
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away. — Robert Henri
I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant. — Paul Cezanne

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