Best pure & form Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.”

Giving Has Beens Film Form Artist Acting Pure Film Acting

“Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.”

“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.”

Inspirational Form Life Is Existence Buddhism Pure Enlightenment Endless

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.”

Art Film Form Pure Entertainment Disappointing

Author:Richard Linklater

“The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.”

Art Film Form Industry Pure Resources Financial Tension Financial Resources

Author:Ann Macbeth

“When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.”

World Mind Ideas Real Reality Form Society Pure Perfection Flight Perceive Delusion Copies Artificial Plato Unbearable Plato S

Author:Arthur Koestler

“When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.”

Ends Form Pure Eggs Portraits Elimination Portraiture

Author:Pablo Picasso

“So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.”

Form Pure Delight Anything Goes

Author:Philip Johnson

“I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.”

Form Lines Color Pure Opposition Gray Shade Plastic Organize Curves Patches Straight Lines Shades Of Gray

Author:Fernand Leger

“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

“Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.”

Form Powerful Moral Mankind Pure Institutions Charity Cruelty Combination Most Powerful Benevolence Superstitious Rite Pernicious

Book:John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

Source: John Quincy Adams: Diaries 1821-1848

“An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.”

Source: Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms

“I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence.”

Ifs Littles Use Form Existence Break Becoming Pure Everyday Colour Detached Transcendental

Author:David Batchelor

“The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”

Facts Form Fiction Pure Edges Can Not Fables Symmetry Ragged Narration

Book:The Poems of Herman Melville

Source: The Poems of Herman Melville

“The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.”

Form Pure Desert Landscape Abstraction

Book:America

Source: America

“In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.”

Humans Character Form Pure Average Reactions Fascism Irrational

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?”

Men World Moments Form Air Sky Pure Creatures Blue Barriers Breaking Down Floats Blue Sky

Book:Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror

Source: Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror

“This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.”

Form Pure Instruments Servitude

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.”

Way Mean Doe Moments Today Form Simple Modern Amount Pure Capitalism Caught Definitions Surrender All Time Dominant Old Fashioned

Author:Alain Badiou

“In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.”

Should Mind Art Self Enough Form Used Force Awareness Taught Pure Skills Demand Gains Protection Intense Martial Arts Aggression Defence Wanton Self Defence Personal Gain

Author:David Fontana

“In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects.”

Children Art Form Clear Style Example Creation Objects Products Pure Strive Bridges Iron Toys Airports Automobile Similarity Telescopes Cottages Railway Skyscraper Locomotives

Author:Theo van Doesburg

“The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.”

Government Form Social Democracy Conditions Pure Forms Of Government Social Equality

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.”

Light Form Desire Suffering Buddhism Pure Unhappiness Aversion

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.”

Ifs Mind Form Speak Pure Shadow

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)”

World Firsts Philosophy Reality Form Perfect Pure Essence Sorry Including Lovely Planes Pope Plato Mud Transcendent Muddy

Author:N.D. Wilson

“I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form.”

Form Differences Pure Islam Defined Submission

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.”

“I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.”

Self Form Certain Interest Moral Morality Pure Ideals Manners Enlightened Self Interest Platonic

Author:Andrew Young

“O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure”

Hard Form Cold Lovers Pure Hard Times Unfortunate Jewels Pure Love Early Love

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.”

May Art Problem Form Artist Forget Growing Fine Pure Profound Endure Wit Newspapers Discussion Merit Complexity Maps Idle Threatening Byzantine

Author:Marcel Proust

“It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.”

Needs Reason Facts Form Faith Easy Knowledge Objects Involved Pure Eternal Historical Indifferent Absurdity Historical Knowledge

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style, John has made widely available the visions, the laws, and the numbers held within pure geometry and which integrate earth and sky, movement and form, cosmos and mankind.”

“[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary.”

Form Numbers Objects Theory Pure Intellectual Relation Mathematics Combination Quantity Correspondence

Author:Hermann Hankel

“At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.”

Country Feelings Form Moral Class Novel Grace Fine Pure Glory Wit Our Country Observation Delicate Distinguished Small Parts

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.”

Soul Form Night Sex Consciousness Blood Pure Ideals Unconscious

Book:Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

Source: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

“Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.”

Form Humility Pure Shapes Originals Longing Melancholy Reverence Modesty Serenity Veils Gratefulness Manifold

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.”

Art Real Stories Film Form Fiction Pure Creating Happenings Theater Architecture Narrative Cinema Filmmaking Sculpture Real Things Art History Culmination Celluloid

Author:George Hickenlooper

“The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.”

“The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals.”

Men Humans Government Form Religion Moral Principles Human Nature Morality Pure Admire Destroyed Excellent Productive Admirable Forms Of Government

Book:Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814

Source: Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814

“I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.”

Art I Can Reality Earth Form Spirit Healthy Pure Approach Music Is Add Genuine Dynamics Stimulation Molding Music Making

Author:Brian Wilson

“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.”

Should Humans Art Feelings Form Desire United Known Failing Subjects Pure Art Is Difficulty Fundamentals Instinct Judgement Abstract Erotic Spectators

Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.”

Two Form Pure Bottom Productive Legislation

Author:Richard Allen Epstein

“Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.”

Ideas Form Pure Performances Visuals Museums Gallery Puppets

Author:Wayne White

“As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.”

Doe Country Government Form Democracy Pure Democratic Tyranny Consent Imperialism Contradictory Foreigners Forms Of Government Hypocritical Consent Of The Governed

Book:Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope

Source: Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope

“It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies with pure story - without the derogatory sex, violence and language to (rely on) a good story.”

Trying Stories Form Language Sex Violence Pure Rely Silver Good Story Derogatory Taglines

Author:Drew Waters

“Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.”

Faces Spiritual Form Pure Intellectual Shots Mistaken Ferocity

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.”

Self Seems Form Space Broken Pure Remains Remove Diverse

Author:Adi Shankara

“But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism.”

People Knows Whole Form Pure Obsessed Observers Conservatism Reactionaries Isms

Author:Hodding Carter III

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