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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.
Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism.
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.
The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.
Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
It used to be considered an art form to win a tournament without having to shove all your chips in the middle.
I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.
We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.
Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.
I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Eliminate laws and dogmas that hinder the progress of the world and develop the heart in the form of compassion.
The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.
My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
People respect power, and it comes in many forms, Krav Maga is power, and people will respect you for knowing it
Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.
I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.
Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.
Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.