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• Form is the shape of content.

  Ben Shahn

  Shapes

  Ben Shahn (1967). “Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968”

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• The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

  Graham Collier

  Artist, Men, Emotional

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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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• One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Inspirational, Respect, Effective Listening

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• Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, World, Multiple

  Marcel Proust (1932). “Cities of the Plain”

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• Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

  Robert Frost

  Clouds, Waiting, Storm

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• The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Essentials, Mediums, Unimportant

  Gwendolen Webster, Kurt Schwitters (1997). “Kurt Merz Schwitters: A Biographical Study”

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• A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Ideas, Mind, Use

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• Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hate, Heart, Men

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

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• Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  C. S. Lewis

  Courage, Army, Bravery

  In Cyril Connolly 'The Unquiet Grave' (1944) ch. 31

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• The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

  Jean Klein

  Inspirational, Reality, World

  Jean Klein (2006). “Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest”, p.25, New Harbinger Publications

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, Skills

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• Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Brother, Unions

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.81, NYU Press

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• An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Intelligent, Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.36, Tuttle Publishing

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• The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Beauty, Bears, Exposure

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• A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humor, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.230, Courier Corporation

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Children, Men

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

  Lewis Mumford

  Expression, Humanity, Intuition

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• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Lying, Philosophy

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• You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Art, Life Lesson, Air

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• Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or explore forms other than the ones you're most comfortable with. But you should be willing to recognize that when writers try to make themselves into something they aren't or, more important, don't want to be ... they aren't going to be doing their best work.

  Kevin Alexander

  Writing, Style, Important

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• I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Invisible, Music Is

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.

  Levi Eshkol

  Party, Political, Three

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• Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

  Moshe Safdie

  Beautiful, Motivation, Inspiration

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