Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
Philip Guston

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.
William Robertson Smith

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.
Wilhelm Ostwald

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.
Mikhail Gorbachev

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.
Erno Rubik

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.
Lewis Tappan

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
Sol LeWitt

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
William C. Bryant

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
Norman McLaren

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
John Lothrop Motley

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
Edward Witten

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
Ken Hill

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.
Jon Corzine

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
Peter Straub

All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
Dario Fo

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
Millicent Fawcett

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.
Arthur Hertzberg

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Northrop Frye