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Shapes Quotes - Page 21

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1833). “Faust, a dramatic poem, tr. into Engl. prose with notes by the translator of Savigny's 'Of the vocation of our age for legislation'”, p.95

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

"The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.195, Univ of California Press

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

George Ade (2016). “Fables in Slang”, p.62, Youcanprint

Who is able to paint the existence of a dog as Picasso paints the existence of a cubic shape?

Quoted in Briefe, Aufzeichnungen und Aphorismen (2 vols,1920), translated by Chipp in his Theories of Modern Art (1968).

The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?

Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.426, Pickle Partners Publishing

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

"FILM; Eric Rohmer Writes His Own 'Winter's Tale'" by John Rockwell, www.nytimes.com. March 27, 1994.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”