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“There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.”

“There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.”

Reason Form Felt

Author:Denis Donoghue

“It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.”

Character Light Form Values Color Translate Recourse

Book:Pierre Bonnard: observing nature

Source: Pierre Bonnard: observing nature

“It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.”

Has Beens Form Found Literature Modern Europe East

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand.”

Ifs Should Reason Form Passion Given Mirrors Mere Glasses No Reason Reception

Book:The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality

Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality

“If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.”

Ifs May Government Form Periods Democrat Combination Minorities Swings Coalitions Pendulums Minority Government

Author:Vince Cable

“Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”

Giving Art Form Faith Pleasure Common Practice Accomplishment Intensity

Author:Adam Gopnik

“The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.”

Men Mind Art Form Purpose Artist Consciousness Environment Journey Draws Essence Guides I Have Learned Asia Clue

Author:Morris Graves

“It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.”

Men Art Ideas Form Quality Records Capable Capacity Paint Aids Positively

Author:Morris Graves

“Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.”

Want Trying Kind I Can Ideas Whole Form Certain Education Painting Masters Activity Structure Leap Composition Inhuman

Author:Philip Guston

“Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.”

Feels Firsts Different Ends Sometimes Moving Form Accepting Wind Paid Shrinks Voyages Moralist

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.”

Light Moving Form Turns Space Painting Balance Lucky Draws Relation Paint Anxious Surprising Actuality Methodology Lucky Day

Book:The drawings of Philip Guston

Source: The drawings of Philip Guston

“I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me.”

Ifs Men Feels Ends States Hands Wanted Form Dark Rooms Blind Canvas Clay Blind Man Dark Room

Author:Philip Guston

“To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else.”

Way Might Form Desire Clear Strategy Intimate Arbitrary Incomplete Distortion

Author:Philip Guston

“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.”

“Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm... Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?”

Men World Hands Beautiful Film Moving Form Music Imagine Gun Rhythm Related Without Music Love Films Music Man

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.”

People Government Form Used White Deals Leader Corruption Lists Gaps Collars Plugs White Collar

Author:Jakaya Kikwete

“All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.”

Form Simple Results Mathematics Property Mathematical Investigation Integers

Author:Leopold Kronecker

“In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.”

Ends Form Sides Color Masters Pursuit Supreme Representing Matisse

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.”

Form Essence Manifestation Phenomenon Accord

Author:Yves Klein

“Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant--its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.”

Thinking Real Whole Earth Form Dies Force Dark Roots Plant Silent Stem Recess Plant Life Strength And Beauty

Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.”

Form Used Lines Simple Cases Produce Color Elements Logical Squares Finite Variation Methodology Cubes

Author:Sol LeWitt

“I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.”

Thinking Knows Art Stories Form Novel Deserve Short Story Underrated

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.”

Age Past Form Artist Genuine Midst Great Art Great Artist Timeliness

Author:Franz Marc

“When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the critics... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert"... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling.”

Has Beens Art Feelings Form Spirit Lost Filled Critics Objectives Desert Desperate Squares Refuge Objectivity Ballast

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.”

World Real Eye Faces Form Alive Surface Staring Pairs Plastic

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.”

Form Creation Painting Objectives Zero Transformed Realism

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.”

Art Form Elements Technique Crafts Artistry Clumsy Awkwardness

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.”

Should Long Facts Action Christian Form Cheeks Nevertheless Bribe Turn The Other Cheek

Author:Gary North

“It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.”

Thinking Different Whole Form Brain Approach Renewal Animated New Approach

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.”

Thinking Firsts Problem Form Political Accepting Roles Huge First Time Racial Profiling

Author:Kal Penn

“Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.”

Wells Littles Whole Problem Form Culture Stuff Bits Can Do Television Listening Little Bit Various Australia Accents No Problem American Culture Tricky Whole Family

Author:Guy Pearce

“I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.”

Want Form Purpose Flexibility Flexible Sonatas

Author:Sergei Prokofiev

“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”

“Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.”

Enough Form Space Vision Unconscious Spontaneity Coordination

Author:Herbert Read

“I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.”

Form Colour Not Interested

Author:Mark Rothko

“Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.”

Form Work My Favorite Recreation

Book:THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA

Source: THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA

“But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.”

Long Form Strong Movement Victory These Days Sincere Sympathy Elude Elude Us Elude You

Author:Hjalmar Schacht

“The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.”

Knows Reason Earth Form Opportunity Creativity Depends Habit Normal Spring Accidents Disaster Extinction Dinosaurs New Opportunity Speciation

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“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 up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.”

Knows Giving Art Ideas Form Creativity Air Mystery Inspired Patterns Encounters New Ideas

Author: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 forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality.”

Kind Mean Facts Form Grows Process Memories Quality Evolution Proliferation Cumulative

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.”

Giving Art Ideas Whole School Form Successful Heard Expression Foundation Works Of Art Select Obscurity Languish

Author: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 long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Long Art Enough Form Used Culture Fields First Time Appreciation Make Sense Modernism

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get repeated. By natural selection and then through repetition they become probable, more habitual.”

Art Ideas Form Natural Successful Art Is Instinct Very Good Good Ideas Repetition Selection Natural Selection Habitual

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.”

People Funny Form Religious Party Share Tables Wine Dinner Meals Sacraments Inviting Close Friends Dinner Party Religious Experience Candlelight

Author:Sally Quinn

“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“Mathematics is not merely an idle art form, it is an essential part of our society.”

Art Form Essentials Mathematics Our Society Idle

Author:Richard Hamming

“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 forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.”

Should Looks Form Space Movement Draws Edges Gestures Precise

Author:Kimon Nicolaides

“The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.”

Needs Form Young Ability Responsibility Player British Taking Responsibility

Author:Tim Henman

“When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.”

Humans Whole Form Figures Draws Stones Sculpture Sculpting

Author:Rudolf Steiner