Quotes on Form

In the stream, _x000D_ Rushing past _x000D_ To the dusty world, _x000D_ My fleeting form _x000D_ Casts no reflection.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music.

Photography is a form of time travel.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

The law of the innermost form of the essay is heresy

The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

God does not look at your outer forms, _x000D_ but at the love within your love.