I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.
The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.
I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.
There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
Acting is a form of confusion.
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.
I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.
I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.
Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
I am of the philosophy that if you work really hard and focus on things, you will get there in some form or fashion.
Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally.
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
