Formalist Quotes

#1. Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.

Philip J. Davis

#3. I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

Catherine Opie

#4. Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level..

Stephen Shore

#5. I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

Jerry Saltz

#7. Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

Harold Rosenberg

#8. The first step to success it's to imagine it

Pete Hautman

#9. I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.

Joanna Newsom

#10. Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

Debora Spar

#11. In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer talented people. It is likely to change the culture of an industry that for nearly a century has been the money center of the world.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#12. I'm not working at the Chevron, although I'd probably be the best person to work the night shift. Look at me. Nobody would try to steal a Snickers on my watch.

Al Jourgensen

#13. Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

Billy Gibbons

#14. The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence ... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.

John H. Sununu

#15. I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. Imperfection means perfection hid.

Robert Browning