Shape Of Things Quotes:

The future is the shape of things to come.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Shapes, Shape Of Things

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.

- Henry Moore

source: "Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation".

topic: Sculpture, Shapes, Obsessed, Sculptors, Shape Of Things

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

- Black Elk

topic: Inspirational, Together, Shapes, Indian, Indian Wisdom

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

- Henry Moore

topic: Art, Musician, Sound, Shape Of Things

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

- Henry Moore

topic: Art, Struggle, Drawing, Shape Of Things

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

- Henry Moore

topic: Inspirational, New Year, Educational, Days Of The Year, Happy New Year

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

- Ron Perlman

topic: Birthday, Age, Events, Shape Of Things, Unexpected Events

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

- Roderick Haig-Brown

topic: Men, Thinking, Lakes, Shape Of Things

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

- Martha Ostenso

source: Martha Ostenso (1938). “The Mandrake Root”

topic: Shapes, Sickness, Illness, Shape Of Things

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

topic: Artist, Men, Emotional, Emotional Life, Shape Of Things

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

- Joseph Wood Krutch

topic: Thoughtful, Men, Confusion, Shape Of Things

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten.

- Alan Moore

source: "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

topic: Memories, Dark, Childhood, Damp, Poignant

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Faith, Inspiration, Simple, Shape Of Things

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

- Jeff Beck

topic: Music, Hysteria, East, Recording Studio, Mass Hysteria

Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.

- Karen Russell

source: "What Author Karen Russell Knows For Sure About 7 P.M." by Karen Russell, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

topic: Understanding, Luck, Events, Brevity, Shape Of Things