Form Quotes - Page 63

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

True repentance always involves reform.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

Form follows failure.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.

All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no modifications can appear in one part without bringing about corresponding modifications in all the rest.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Yoga is the practice of radical transformation

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance