Form Quotes

Rhythm is form cut into time.

Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

I always try to do something for my husband that’s completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.

I came here as an escape not another form of chains.

Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.

A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

The best form to see God in is in every form.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.