Top 1200 Form And Substance Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

I think some people form the traditional DJ worlds misunderstand where I'm coming form.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.

The best form in which to worship God is every form.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was to create a book that affords readers some of the novel's long-form pleasures but that also contains the short story's ability to capture what is so difficult about being human - the brevity of our moments, their cruel irrevocability.

Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter.

Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.

Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.

In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the transcendence of form is through form itself.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

Makeup is an art form for me. It's a form of expression, and it's such a cool way to get my creative juices flowing.

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

The substance of painting is light.

I feel that performing is its own art form, and recording is its own art form, and writing is its own art form, and that they all can happen simultaneously but at different paces.

This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest... You are very fortunate that you have the chance to experiences the bliss of the vision of the form, which is the form of all gods, now, in this life itself.

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.

I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

The principles and form of government that form the basis of democracy are compatible with Islamic values.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

Form is difficult. You can't predict form, it is up and down for any player.

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.

I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.

You can't have style if you don't have substance.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the world. The arising of form and the ceasing of form-everything that has been heard, sensed, and known, sought after and reached by the mind-all this is the embodied world, to be penetrated and realized.

Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

The best form to see God in... is in every form

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to "critique" as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.

Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

To some degree, to control light, I have to have a way to form it, so I use form almost like the stretcher bar of a canvas.