Form Quotes - Page 3

• Out of the formless the forms appear.

  Mooji

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• If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.

  Robert Motherwell

  Children, Flower, Giving

  Robert Motherwell, Dore Ashton, Jack D. Flam, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1983). “Robert Motherwell”, Abbeville Pr

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• There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

  Robert Henri

  Painting, Far Away

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Artist, Order, Spices

  Rudolf Arnheim (1966). “Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays”, p.40, Univ of California Press

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• The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Color, Important, Lasts

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• The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.

  Morris Graves

  Art, Journey, Men

  "Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir". Published by University of Washington Press, p. 19, 2002.

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• Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.

  Philip Guston

  Moving, Wind, Different

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.

  Yves Klein

  Essence, Manifestation, Accord

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

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• When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface.

  Jules Olitski

  Thinking, Color, Surface

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• I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Black And White, Color, Want

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

  Georges Braque

  Colour

  "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, 1968, p. 75, 1968.

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• Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.

  Harvey Dunn

  Dark, Light, Tone

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• 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.

  John French Sloan

  Nice, Losing, Brushes

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• I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence.

  David Batchelor

  Everyday, Use, Littles

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• So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without a value change, which wouldn't show up if you were just using a non-color medium.

  Nelson Shanks

  Color, Trying, Mediums

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• There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.

  Burne Hogarth

  Block, Eggs, Cylinders

  Burne Hogarth (1996). “Dynamic Figure Drawing”

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• Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

  Susan Sontag

  Lying, Simple, Self

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• 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

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Believe, Heart, Puja

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• Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

  Louise Erickson

  Funny, Hard Work, Garden

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• There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

  Dan Rice

  Art, Three, Looks

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  Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Time, Democracies Have

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

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• I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Art, Attitude

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• I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

  Richard Roeper

  Texas, Ems

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• Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Ironic, Literature, Irony

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, (p. 151), 1968.

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• Language is the dress of thought.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Learning, Thinking

  Lives of the English Poets "Cowley" (1779 - 1781)

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