Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

-Barth, Karl
  Kirchliche Dogmatik vol.3, pt.2 (translated by H Knight as Church Dogmatics,1960).

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

-Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard
  Art, pt.1, ch.3.

Man found his form and his identity under the action of religious principles and energies; the confusion in which he is losing them cannot be re-ordered by purely human efforts.

-Berdyaev, Nicholas
  'Konets Rennesansa' in Sofiya (translated as'The End of the Renaissance' in the Slavonic Review,  Jun/Dec1925).

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the L revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely hehath borne ourgriefs, and carried our sorrows.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 53:1^4.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Divine Image'.

And all must love the human form, In heathen,Turk or Jew; Where mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Divine Image'.

God appears and God is light To those poor souls who dwell in night, But does a human form display To those who dwell in realms of day.

-Blake,William
  Milton,'And Did Those Feet In  Ancient Time'.

To think a soul so near divine, Within a form, so angel fair, United to a heart like thine, Has gladdened once our humble sphere.

-Bronte«  , Anne
  'A Reminiscence', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and  Acton Bell.

There isnothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it mayölight, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.

-Constable,John
Quoted in C R Leslie Memoirs of theLife of John Constable (1843).

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.

-Crisp, Quentin
  The Naked Civil Servant, ch.29.

   Yo persigo una forma que no encuentra mi estilo, boto¤  n de pensamiento que busca ser la rosa; se anuncia con un beso que en mis labios se posa al abrazo imposible de laVenus de Milo. I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose; it is heralded by a kiss that is placed on my lips in the impossible embrace of theVenus de Milo.

-Dar|¤  o, Rube¤  n pseudonym of Fe¤  lixRube¤  nGarc|¤a Sarmiento
  Prosas profanas,'Yo persigo una forma†' (translated as'I seek a form†',1922).

An artist who has travelled on a steam train, driven an automobile,or flowninanairplanedoesn'tfeelthesame way about form and space as one who has not.

-Davis, Stuart
  'Is There a Revolution in the  Arts?', in Bulletin of  America's Town Meeting of the Air, vol.5, no.19 (19 Feb).

Drawing is not the form; it is the way of seeing the form.

-Degas, (Hilaire Germain) Edgar
Quoted in P  Vale¤  ry Degas, danse, dessin (1938).

Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips.Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Mrs General. Little Dorrit, bk.2, ch.5.

Aphorismsgive you more for your time and money than any other literary form.Only the poem comes near to it, but then most good poems either start off from an aphorism orarrive at one† Aphorisms and epigrams are the corner-stones of literaryart.

-Dudek, Louis
Collected in Notebooks1960^1994 (1994).

We had the experience but missed the meaning, And approach to the meaning restores the experience In a different form, beyond any meaning We can assign to happiness.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.2.

Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise¤   de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe¤   du peuple opprime¤  , le distort, le de¤  figure, l'ane¤  antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.

-Fanon, Frantz Omar
Les Damne¤  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.4,'On National Culture'.

Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

-Feininger, Lyonel
  Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

Il ne faut pas toujours croire que le sentiment soit tout. Dans les arts, il n'est rien sans la forme. You must not think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Letter to Mme Louise Colet,12  Aug.

All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

-Hazlitt,William
Of  Turner's painting, quoted in  J Lindsay  Turner: The Man and his  Art (1985).