Top 1200 Form And Substance Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Testosterone should be a controlled substance.

Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content makes the play. I feel the form is simply dressing, because ultimately, you want to communicate to the audience, and sometimes the best way to do that is to present a provocative idea in a format that is comfortable for them to receive. Then the idea will come through directly, right in solar plexus. After all, I want to make a living as an artist, and that means speaking to the audience in a form they can understand.

Number was the substance of all things.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in fact indicates the sufficient reason for the existence of that form.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

Any form of art is a form of power.

Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has been to elevate that form. Maybe that sounds pretentious!

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

What we do is unique in helping empower athletes and their voice through long-form and short-form content to social to our products.

No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

The Internet is a container, not a substance.

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is an eight-hour form of storytelling, and film is a two-hour form. Each and every one of them are important to me, because they're a different modality of storytelling.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.

Time is the substance of which we are made

Love is the substance of human survival.

'Vogue' celebrates plenty of women of substance.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.

Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.

I do not oppose form, but only form as a goal.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

The body is the substance of the stone.

You think the shadow is the substance.

I like men of substance.

Inclusiveness has an outlook, an appearance and substance.

I think my sound is very loud. I want other people to describe it as a form of therapy - therapeutic music, a form of release to them.

The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.

I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty.

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

Sensationalism is entertaining, but substance is what matters.

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

Architectural-form equals social-form

What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.

Substance should outweigh perfection.

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own.