“I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers.” IfsGivingLooksRealityTogetherIndividualSunFlowerShapesCreatingIllusionHillsAbstractWorking Together Author:John Newman
“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.” MindIdeasPastTurnsFantasyAliveShapesCreatingPointingLive In The Present Book:The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves Source: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.” LyingNatureShapesCreatingAbsolutesAbstract Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews
“I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".” ThinkingWellsMadeHandsCertainShapesCreatingPointingNoticing Author:Matthea Harvey
“Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.” KnowsLooksMeanLongHardCharacterKnow HowAwarenessShapesCreatingRomanticMake SensePuzzlesFiguring It Author:Nancy Meyers
“Define the space horizontally rather than vertically in movie widescreen, 2.35:1 just having that rectangular shape and when you think of great horror movies like Halloween and Jaws that just really exploit the space so well and I just think we would have so many more opportunities in creating suspense and shocks.” ThinkingWellsOpportunitySpaceHorrorShapesCreatingSuspenseShockHalloweenExploits Author:David Kirschner
“I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.” I CanHardBigsTogetherSongFunPiecesImagineMiddleShapesProjectsCreatingTablesCookingAlbumsMealsClothingsImagine ThatRecipesClay Author:Erykah Badu
“What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.” PeopleJobsOpportunityProcessGrowthCan DoChallengesShapesCreatingOrdinaryEnvironmentalWorkersProtectionIntegrationOrdinary PeopleRapidsStrengtheningBetter JobsRapid GrowthEnvironmental Challenges Author:Barack Obama
“Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.” PeopleIfsWantLooksImportantMatterUsedNamesMaterialsShapesCreatingItemsZestGusto Author:Ray Bradbury