Forms Quotes

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Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. — Ben Shahn
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows… — Bill Moyers
I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow. — Francisco Goya
I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic… — Sean William Scott
Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just… — Emily Carr
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly… — Fernand Leger
Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy… — Stan Smith
Working within the limits of the medium forces us to change our own limits. Improvisation is not breaking with forms and limitations just to be… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, Internet or whatever - human solitude will… — Werner Herzog
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity.… — John Zachary Young
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. — Pierre Bonnard
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature… — Lafcadio Hearn
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at… — Ralph Cudworth
Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms… — Philip Guston
I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a… — Philip Guston
My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug… — Jakaya Kikwete
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these… — Sol LeWitt
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest… — Franz Marc
Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms… — Guy Pearce
The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the… — Rupert Sheldrake

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