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• Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.

  Sophy Burnham

  Eye, Angel, Color

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.52, Penguin

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• Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

  Keith Haring

  Negative, Function, Components

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.53, Penguin

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• Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

  Timothy Keller

  Character, Play, People

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.651, Zondervan

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Love had a thousand shapes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Thousand

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

  Naum Gabo

  Nature, Lying, Creating

  Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”

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• I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

  Mika

  Moving, Order, Dancer

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• School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Stupid, School, Want

  Foreword to the catalogue for the show at the Anderson Galleries in New York, 1926.

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• To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

  Barry Lopez

  Order, Giving, Imagination

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• Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

  Aristotle

  Soul And Body, States, Produce

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• Give shape, artist! don't talk!
  Your poem be but a breath.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Giving, Poetry

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• Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Death, Real

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.462, Book House

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• Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.

  James Howell

  Art, Sculpture, Rough

  James Howell (1713). “Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters, Domestick and Foreign. Divided into four books, Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.206

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• It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

  Theaster Gates

  Capacity, Materials

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• Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

  Rex Brandt

  Perspective, Depth, Linear

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• I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Reality, Looks, Body

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• Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Color, Differences, Personality

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• I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Heart, Desire

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• Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

  Gloria Feldt

  Knowing, Giving, Tools

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.299, Seal Press

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• Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.

  Bonnie Wright

  Cutting, Clothes, Important

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• Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Color, Space, Design

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• It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.

  Susannah Constantine

  Skin Tone, Style, Skins

  "Mistresses of the makeover". Interview with Cathrin Schaer, www.nzherald.co.nz. February 19, 2008.

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• Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

  Genco Gulan

  Art, Wall, Aesthetics

  "Concepual Colors of Genco Gulan". Book by Marcus Graf, 2011.

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• The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.

  Trinny Woodall

  Size, Forget You, Mantras

  "Exclusive Trinny and Susannah Interview". Female First Interveiw, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 19, 2007.

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• We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with the help of robots made out of technical know-how. We can't be useful to humankind if there are no sentiments in life.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Want, India

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