Forms Quotes

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Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling… — Rupert Sheldrake
The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new… — Rupert Sheldrake
When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around… — Rupert Sheldrake
You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no… — Kimon Nicolaides
I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but… — Rudolf Steiner
I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not… — Joan Miro
It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to… — Aeschines
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and… — Walter J. Phillips
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and… — Piet Mondrian
They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form… — Dennis Franchione
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge… — Paula Rego
The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right... — Paula Rego
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. — Michael Kimmelman
I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking… — Graham Sutherland
The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of… — Gyorgy Kepes
When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in… — Pierre Alechinsky
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting… — Richard Diebenkorn
My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe,… — Arshile Gorky
Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit… — Lawren Harris

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