Form Quotes

“Change form, execute function.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Nam już nie formy trzeba, ale żywej idei.”
― Sławomir Mrożek, Tango

“Nature is the greatest example of love, wellness, and relationship, in visible form”
― Prem Jagyasi

“Is suicide a form of insanity or enlightenment?”
― Steven Magee

“The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to accommodate without crushing them), to learn from and be transformed by them depends on the provision of this “quiet yet live holding”---in this form. Then in all its further expected and unexpected, tested, and as yet unimagined forms.”
― Kate Briggs, The Long Form

“A building is only good, thought Kahn, if its ruins will be any good. He was discouraged by those who thought about buildings in terms of functionality. A building is a spirit, he said. It is made out of man.”
― Lara Pawson, Spent Light

“The autonomy of form affects all aspects of life dominated by capital. Knowledge is valid only if it is formalized, if it is emptied of content. Absolute knowledge is tautology realized; it is dead form deployed over all knowledge. Science is its systemization; epistemology is its redundancy.”
― Jacques Camatte, This World We Must Leave and Other Essays

“Imagine a DVD movie with a “mind”. Would it understand that it’s actually a DVD (Form) and not the movie (Content) it contains? The Content is far more appealing and vivid than the Form, which is why we live in a Mythos world rather than Logos.”
― Mike Hockney, Mind and Life, Form and Content

“Art's relation to form, to the image, to the monistic fantasy that provoked its defense of its own dividedness is today, as Klein predicted, intermittent and embarrassed. There are modes of art now that resemble activism or protest, pure and simple; modes of art characterized by a refusal to structure themselves around subject-object relations. The visual itself, the image, is questioned as the normative framework of art. Art is often not a product, not a precious trace, not a singularity, but rahter a dynamic, multipular interaction that creates temporary publics who are public to one another. Art does not have to add anything to the world. for technology and entrepreneurship already do that. Art is an irreality opened up inside the world. Art is the refusal of complicity in any form of domination. You are not trapped by the collectivity, but you are not entirely free either, for freedom, even the anarchic mode of the artwork, is suspected to be a mode of evasion of responsibility. Art is a quasi-event: it is not there all the time (like a book), but it is also not there only at an assigned time (like a theatrical play). This has become a comparative advantage of art over the other arts, which have more trouble intervening in reality. Much art today is coordinated with long-term eschatological or emancipatory projects, with projects as such. Art aims at such positive goals as synchrony, participation, inclusion, and sympathy, concepts hard to reconcile with the once-prized, exclusive qualities of art.”
― Christopher S. Wood, A History of Art History

“Journey to the Heart of Beauty; do not be obsessed with mental and egoic ideas of form and perfection. Get your hands and feet dirty, dance in the rain, and rejoice in the Life that is Living Itself through the Uniqueness of You!”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“standard forms are sometimes called conventions, conventions are mightier than armies, police, and prisons. each citizen becomes the enforcer, the doorkeeper, an instrument of the Law, an unfeeling guard punching his fellow man hard in the belly.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

“We call something beautiful, when we gain pleasure from contemplating it as an individual object, for its own sake, and in its presented form.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty

“Water can be drawn from a well, or drawn on a sheet of paper.
Art, in whatever form, is art.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“ALTItude and IDIOT are combined into ALTIDIOT to form a portmanteau word.”
― Steven Magee

“I regard the global deployment of 5G transmitters as a form of terrorism.”
― Steven Magee

“You know your company is in financial trouble when you cannot get a paper clip without filling in a form to request it from your manager!”
― Steven Magee

“Does form result from seeing unform repeatedly?”
― Mina Loy, Stories and Essays of Mina Loy

“Form can be a powerful way to invoke the viewer’s tactile memory and mirror our experience of the physical world despite the limitations of two-dimensional images.”
― Joshua Field, An Illustrated Field Guide to the Elements and Principles of Art + Design

“The statement ‘We will rebuild’ can be a form of insanity.”
― Steven Magee

“I regarded parading President Obama through a field of switched off solar modules at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm as a form of world media fraud.”
― Steven Magee

“Silence can be a form of fraud.”
― Steven Magee

“I regard the police blue brotherhood as a form of organized crime.”
― Steven Magee

“He who lies and steals ...and forms a government.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Police officers not enforcing the law for the common people is a form of harassment they engage in.”
― Steven Magee

“Once you realize and accept that all structures (forms) are unstable, even the seemingly solid material ones, peace arises within you. This is because the recognition of the impermanence of all forms awakens you to the dimension of the formless within yourself, that which is beyond death. Jesus called it "eternal life.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Corrupt police departments are a form of oppression of the people.”
― Steven Magee

“Mr Police Officer, you do not know me and as a police corruption researcher I will be filing a police complaint about you if I see any form of police misconduct from you.”
― Steven Magee

“Contour and profile ['modinature'] are the touchstone of the architect.
Here he reveals himself as artist or mere engineer.
Contour is free of all restraint.”
― Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

“Design is born out of research, out of a positive approach. The ideas must contain life, and be energized with living.”
― Issey Miyake

“The key to being a good poet is to be able to take an idea, add your perspective and emotions, transform these into words, and masterfully scribe the words in a form that we call poetry.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte