Artist Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being…

— Herbert Read

It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so…

— Morris Graves

To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

— Samuel Beckett

Form is the shape of content...

— Ben Shahn

Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in…

— Martin Heidegger

In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing to do…

— Keller Easterling

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

— Edgar Degas

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

— Samuel Beckett

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able…

— Patton Oswalt

Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show…

— Peter Behrens

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the…

— Jack Shadbolt