Conventional Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch

The form is so malleable and can do so many things.

— Jess Walter

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

— Anonymous

“to permit writers to use forms which violate convention just might permit writers to develop forms which would teach people to think differently: not…

— Andrea Dworkin

It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties…

— Adolf Loos

There's nothing like necessity of needing to do something to cause you to come up with abstractions that help you break through the forms.

— Jeff Dean

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

— Bill Watterson

Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone,…

— Marilyn Nelson

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from…

— Anton Chekhov

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

— John Scofield

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

If you do not let go of thinking about forms, you will not understand what I am showing.

— Masaaki Hatsumi

Ideas are always the source of the work. The form needs to emerge from the idea, not be top-down.

— RaMell Ross