Top 1200 Form And Substance Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story.

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.

I wanted to be different and went in for roles with substance after my first film itself.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

The 20th century shows that the form of government that we take for granted, a constitutional democratic republic with checks and balances and a rule of law - that form of government is usually temporary.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

I do think that narrative, long-form nonfiction is the perfect form because it's rooted in something very real, but we're also, you know, completely spiritual, emotional creatures driven by all sorts of desires and needs.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

Industrial hemp is a safe substance with many practical commercial applications.

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone’s heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar (Has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman (Supreme transcendental Consciousness) that is all pervading. Believe in this. This is Rudra Puja

The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the right form is apparent to me from the outset and sometimes it isn't.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form.

My personal goal was to get back to my true form, and my true form is an All-Star player.

The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment as a painter - my energy, my arm, my eyes, my sense of space and form and time. It's a wonderful realm for me. I never leave it.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

Eggs! They're not a food, they belong in no group! They're just farts clothed in substance!

Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It's also a form of peaceful protest, the right to which is another one of our values.

Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.

Julie Taymor. She is my gold standard of stage directors. I think she has a comprehensive knowledge of theatrical form, since she lived in Indonesia, Java, Japan and France. Her knowledge of form is limitless. Whenever I get painted in a corner, I think about what form she would use, because that is what she practices. It's about accessing the theater traditions of the whole world.

Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're a form perfectly suited to our dumbed-down culture and collective attention deficit.

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.