#forms

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ↗

— Le Corbusier

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One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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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

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Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. ↗

— Michel Foucault

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By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do. ↗

— Frank Frazetta

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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. ↗

— Robert Frost

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