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“The problem with black cinema in its current form is on the one hand it is the only game in town; it's a very structured set-up and it's not conducive to get at the kinds of things I'm trying to portray using the cinematic apparatus to show black sociality and how it functions.”

Trying Kind Shows Problem Hands Form Games Black Function Towns Currents Cinema Cinematic

Author:Arthur Jafa

“A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.”

“Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves.”

Form Political Existence Our Lives Economic Subjects Essence Function Relation Ideology Crucial Permission Blindness Prohibition Density Deafness

Author:Michel Foucault

“Muhammad was, first of all, a Prophet of course, a beloved and lover of God, a father, an army commander, a judge, a ruler of a community, the King of Medina and later of Arabia, and all of these were combined in him and his destiny, the reason God brought him on earth, was to show how each of the functions which human beings have in life have the perfect form in the prophet.”

Firsts Humans Reason Shows Earth Form Courses Father Community Human Beings Perfect Destiny Judging Kings Lovers Function Army Beloved Prophet Rulers Commanders Muhammad Arabia Medina

Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotionally attracted to acknowledging how space functions in our lives, both in terms of pleasure and in terms of control, and in terms of all those factors that form a life. I'm also very anxious and maybe repulsed by how superficial that whole dialogue can become.”

Thinking Stills Whole Form Young Term Space Pleasure Levels Fantasy Our Lives Function Dialogue Factors Anxious Architect Superficial Visceral

Author:Tom Burr

“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.”

Art Matter Form Culture Energy Social Cities Creativity Function Symbols Chiefs Reproduction City Life Cities At Night

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

Should Has Beens Spiritual Form Design Function Unions Designer Architect Misunderstood Interior Design Usability Functionality Inspirational Design Design Inspiration Product Design Beautiful Design Architectural Design

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.”

Has Beens Art Form Growth Common Century Function Architecture Unusual Flexible Gothic Renaissance Cathedrals Chapel Baroque Spires

Author:Martin Filler

“Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is”

Men Wells I Can Form Courses Function Asking Following Observation Mask Paradox Questioning Vendetta

Author:Alan Moore

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.”

Important Real Form Motivation Energy Leadership Leader Roles Position Capacity Tasks Organization Function Patterns Being A Leader Real Power Future Leaders Leadership Roles

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

Should Form Suffering Enemy Function Punishment New World Principal Symbolic Brave New World Huxley Brave New World Happiness Brave New World Freedom Brave New World Character Brave New World Technology Brave New World Consumerism Brave New World John

Book:Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books

Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books

“Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.”

Action Form Function Curves Elegance Fitting Right Action

Book:Red Mars

Source: Red Mars

“The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.”

Way Form Lines Essence Function Shoes Elegant

Author:David Mazzucchelli

“Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”

Men Dream Form Saws Objects Serious Expression Return Function Instruments Architecture Rational Borders Towers Irrational Convenience Utopia Baroque Eiffel

Book:The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

Source: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.”

Source: The Souls of Black Folk

“Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects.”

Reality Eye Form Force Results Christianity Lord Failing Subjects Figures Taught Projects Flow Function Perceive Expenses Icons Obedient Taught Us Looking Down Docile Fabrication

Book:Anti-Oedipus

Source: Anti-Oedipus

“The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a higher, nobler one in closer conformity with the supposed ideal. Then from the point of subjectification issues a subject of enunciation, as a function of a mental reality determined by that point. Then from the subject of enunciation issues a subject of the statement, in other words, a subject bound to statements in conformity with a dominant reality”

Reality Moving Form Individual Issues Subjects Higher Ideals Function Bounds Various Determined Statements Conformity Dominant Always Moving

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God (which, we must note, was addressed specifically to perennial problems in political morality), then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) — the standard of self-law or autonomy.”

Ifs Men Self Form Law Evil Force Expression Standards Function Vain Guidance Good And Evil Ethical Autonomy Brutes Commonwealth Autonomous Magistrates Brute Force

Author:Greg L. Bahnsen

“Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

Men Form Function Following Mask Vendetta

Author:Alan Moore

“Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.”

Form Interest Consciousness Theory Higher Function Historical Patterns Objectives Ideology Communism Ritual Falsehood

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.”

“The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences in form. If we could define clearly the differences in molecular constitution and functions of different kinds of organisms, there would be possible a more illuminating and deeper understanding of question of the evolutionary reactions of organisms than could ever be expected from morphological considerations.”

“Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.”

“Form ever follows function.”

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Author:Louis Sullivan

“At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.”

World Needs Children Persons Might Faces Form Mother Next Born Psychology Baby Personality Birth Function Independent Urges Conquest Womb Absorbing Bodily Functions

Author:Maria Montessori

“Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.”

“Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, till men of science, speculating, in their non-scientific intervals, like other men on what science may possibly lead to, have prophesied that we shall soon have to confess that the soul is nothing else than a function of certain complex material systems.”

Men May Soul Form Science Certain Materials Accounts Function Complexes Objectives Gross Endeavour Intervals

Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.”

World Way Facts Stories Form Science Literature Fiction Knowledge Practice History Knowing Fashion Objects Accounts Function Historical Narrative Appropriate Biology Organisms Discourse

Author:Donna J. Haraway

“I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.”

Want Form Color Function

Author:Josef Albers

“In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject. Among others whose several achievements in their own fields may have surpassed his, no one has ever attempted to unify and correlate biochemical knowledge so as to form a comprehensible picture of the cell and its relation to life, reproduction and function.”

Trying May Said Form Science Subjects Fields Achievement Unique Function Relation Cells Contribution Biographies Evaluate Reproduction Hopkins Biochemistry

Author:Marjory Stephenson

“It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a line of melody written in a canon form & so designed by Nature to fold back into itself, creating harmonic chords of interaction consistent with biological function”

Should Inspiration Form Lines Written Creating Function Contemplation Consistent Melody Interaction Precise Sequence Chords Folds Molecules Protein Canon Geometric

Author:Christian B. Anfinsen

“Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.”

Source: The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)

“The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.”

War Self Form Passion Sports Modern Football Basketball Function Bigger Rage Soccer Boredom Frustration Nationalism Substitutes Temporary Combat Acceptable Identification Transference

Author:Edward Abbey

“The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.”

Humans Persons Done Form Life Is Opportunity Function Finals Revenge Harm Punishment Human Life Penalties Severe Deprived Death Penalty Opportunity To Change

Author:Dalai Lama

“Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.”

Different Form Science Differences Animal Function Variety Organs Nomenclature Different Animals

Book:On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton

Source: On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton

“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.”

“My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."”

Form Function Feminine Architect Feminine Beauty

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression”

Needs Whole Facts Body Running Form Force Social Pleasure Produce Negative Function Accepted Instance Productive Discourse Repression Traverse

Book:The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force, implies no motion, and is least emotive. Therefore, it is the best form to use as a basic unit for any more elaborate function, the grammatical device from which the work may proceed.”

May Use Form Three Force Interesting Function Characteristics Devices Aggressive Units Most Interesting Cubes

Book:Sol Lewitt: critical texts

Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts

“For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'”

Heart Character Together Form United Mankind Dangerous Goodness Weak Function Constitution Foundation Lays Humanist Academy Usefulness Head And Heart Exeter

Author:Corliss Lamont

“I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as a form of art. We cannot act as if all religion were poetry while the greater part of it still functions in its ancient guise of illicit science and backward morals. . . .”

Ifs Thinking May Art Stills Ideas Philosophy Form Religious Moral Greater Duty Function Ancient Humanist Pointing Guise Falsity

Author:Corliss Lamont

“With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.”

Form Process Design Flow Function Bases Entity Comprehension

Book:Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes

Source: Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes

“I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.”

Might Form House Broken Function Obvious Brutal Elegance Decor

Author:Meg Ryan

“I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Art Form Artist Actors Views Function Paint Smell Point Of View Genuine Painter Filmmaker Didactic Celluloid

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.”

Thinking Trying Mind Persons Important Ideas Different Able Film Form Havens Tradition Function Originals Strikes Originality New Ideas Preoccupation

Author:Stanley Kubrick

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