There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

When at home, I pray to all forms of Goddess Durga for health, wealth, peace, and prosperity for me and my family.

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

Traditional musical forms like 'Parai Isai' and 'Villupattu' are unique, and they need to be protected and nurtured.

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Evil comes in many forms, and whether you are male or female, that doesn't matter as much as what lurks in your mind.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

I'm a very femme gay boy, so what better way to express that than through drag? It truly is the greatest mix of art forms.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.

The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.

I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

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