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“I look at the bird in the cage and see the air, not only the air that is around the bird when it flies, but I see and feel the formative tendency of air in its form. When I do all this, then what lives in the forms becomes enlivened and spiritualized for me.”

Feels Looks Form Air Bird Tendencies Cages

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.”

World Reality Together Form Given Understanding Tasks Senses Realms Fullness Replicate

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.”

Government Form Economic Economics Employment Economist Economy And Economics Supply Side Economics Home Economics Studying Economics

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.”

Way Feelings Form Language Technology Originals Texting

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.”

“The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art.”

Firsts Mean Art Real Form Song Emotion Emotional Comfort Melancholy Being Real

Author:Keren Ann

“You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.”

Giving Writing Whole Jobs Form Song Painting Productions Architecture Landscape Atmosphere Intimate Ambiance

Author:Keren Ann

“I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.”

Giving Believe Persons Form Order Shapes Harmony Meaningful Life Of Pi Book

Book:Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.”

Thinking Want Kind Form Church Directors Worship Mere Determine Doctrine Administration Priests

Author:Arthur Middleton

“Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.”

Form Painting Expression Substance Form And Substance

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.”

Art Form Defined Fascinating Aesthetic Renewal Outrageous Explosives

Author:Asger Jorn

“A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.”

Form Movement Limits Depth Visuals Shock Infinity Modeling Limitless Chiaroscuro

Author:Joan Miro

“I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a day. It took shape in spite of myself... That is why I am always working on a hundred different things at the same time.”

Different Form Shapes Hundred Discovery Instance Spite Different Things Farms Vocabulary Vineyards Always Working Labourers

Author:Joan Miro

“When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.”

Form Sides Nurture Versus Nature Vs Nurture

Author:Simon Blackburn

“It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.”

World States Government Form Law Three Lord Democracy Democratic Temper Forms Of Government Oligarchy Autocracy

Author:Aeschines

“I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.”

Art Body Form Childhood Elements Computer Visuals Connecting Visual Art

Author:Steve Mann

“The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.”

May Has Beens Form Growing Generations Media Bigger Edges Advertising Emerging Evangelism

Author:Craig Detweiler

“In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also in a slightly exaggerated form, in his painting, for the sake of truth, harmony and unity.”

Form Natural Painting Scene Harmony Unity Sake Painter Landscape Colour Exaggerated Prevailing

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.”

Form Color Colour Visible Variables Pigment

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.”

Art Form Importance Bases Endure Colour Arrangements Pictorial Chiaroscuro

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!”

Doe Form Black White Sky Photography Ordinary Relation Blue Mess Tone Colour Yellow Plates Lenses Sunflower Travesty

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The impression of wood-grain... must be considered, not only as regards texture and visibility, but for the occasional possibility of the expression of form. A soft wood, with hard annulations, such as fir, prints very dearly.”

Hard Form Possibility Expression Regard Woods Impression Print Grain Occasional Texture Visibility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You have no time to wait and see what's going on. You take off, too. Otherwise, you're lunch.”

Form Waiting Bird Originals Lunch Alarms Flocks Contagion

Author:Frans de Waal

“The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.”

Way Might Past Form Order Force Christ Challenges Events Seeking Maturity Fixed Resurrection Isolated Stretching Static Defying Unleashing

Author:Frank Griswold

“If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.”

Ifs Moving Form Force Failing Military Civilization Succeed Conflict Creating Structure Iraq Peaceful Division Coalitions Paralysis

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.”

Ifs Art Form Strong Lines Awareness Direct Harmony Intuition Rhythm Works Of Art Curves Calculations Vertical Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Piet Mondrian

“They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.”

Form Enjoy Doubt Son Flattery Footsteps Your Son

Author:Dennis Franchione

“Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the form of aversion. This fundamentally is all the ego is. This movement of grasping and aversion gives rise to a sense of a separate 'me,' and in turn the sense of 'me' strengthens itself this way.”

Way Giving Mind Form Turns Movement Objects Ego Perception Grasping Aversion

Author:Adyashanti

“Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there.”

Giving Looks Real Seems Form Fall Next One Day Bottom Surface Stuck Dust Substance Drag Canvas Next Day Dissatisfaction Hinges Splinters

Book:Paula Rego

Source: Paula Rego

“The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.”

I Can Form Space Worry Gaps

Book:Paula Rego

Source: Paula Rego

“A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.”

Should Art Stories Beautiful Form Interest Fields Expression Paint Abstract Colour Works Of Art Illustration Expressive

Author:John F. Carlson

“The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music - are intangible in their reaction upon us. There is an immediate sensuous appeal!”

Soul Eye Form Surface Reactions Appeals Contemplation Colour Subtle Transition Intangible Sensuous

Author:John F. Carlson

“We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.”

Stills Country Form Willing Army Independent Occupation Independent Country

Author:Khaled Mashal

“The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.”

Art Form Consolation Collectors

Book:The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

Source: The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa

“I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms... A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter.”

Has Beens Form Prove Unique Series Rhythm Recognition Encounters Spine Validity Shiver Conjunctions

Author:Graham Sutherland

“The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.”

Giving Stills Form Social Quality Models Artistic Our Time Spite Vitality Convincing Relevance

Author:Gyorgy Kepes

“The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.”

Men Way Form Artist Movement Emotional Strange Shapes Emotional Life Shape Of Things

Author:Graham Collier

“The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another.”

Persons Said Two Real Form Humanity Individual Realizing Communication Isolated Entering Personal Relationships Real Person True Person

Author:Kallistos Ware

“When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.”

Thinking World Reality Form Fantasy Effects Painting Expression Habit Painter Unprecedented

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.”

Form Modern Satisfied Painter Spots Meaningless Coincidence Modernism

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.”

Persons Feelings Form Lost Given Influence Figures Painting Psychological Cups Landscape Continuing Canvas Loaded

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.”

Art Form Art Is Ultimate Heal Forms Of Love

Author:Robert Genn

“Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?”

Thinking Jobs Form Behinds Journey Tradition Deny Painter Description Brushes Knuckles

Author:Robert Genn

“I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.”

Ideas Form Language Our Time

Book:Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective

Source: Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective

“My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.”

Art Form Growth Memories Vision Path Shapes Art Is Breathe Exploration Contracts Recollection New Paths New Vision Armenia

Author:Arshile Gorky

“Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.”

People World Art Ideas Beautiful Form Joy Spirit Perfect Results Creative Clear Records Adventure Higher Pure Elements Eternal Art Is Plato Joyous Creative Spirit

Author:Lawren Harris

“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.”

Art Form Three Perfect Emotion Balance Art Is Function Stress Intellect Primaries Dimensions Strain Living Things Reduction Miniatures Microcosm Perfect Balance Three Dimensions

Author:Lawren Harris

“If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.”

Ifs Should Littles Art Reality Form Spring Bases Abstract Short Lived

Author:Eugene J. Martin

“What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.”

Giving Ideas Form Humanity Ability Skills Perception Insight Visuals

Author:Richard Schmid

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

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