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Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.
— Robert Denning
Function influence but does not dictate form
— Eero Saarinen
I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
— James Vincent McMorrow
To Walk In Direction Is A Function That The Director Is Aware
— Sunday Adelaja
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no such thing as divine law enforced by mankind. Cosmic laws are self-sustaining mechanisms that do not require our assistance to function.
— Anita B. Sulser PhD
The essential function of feelings is to provide feedback and pass through us organically like water flows in a river.
— Deborah Sandella
This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.
— Joseph Rotblat
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
— Eckhart Tolle
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
— Patti Smith
Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
— D.H. Lawrence
Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.
— Adam Johnson
We think we are intelligent but need an artificial intelligence to really function intelligently!
— Alex Pusineri
Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.
— John Zerzan
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
— Ang Lee
[I]ntrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.
— Erik Adigard
We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.
— Shelby Harris
Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.
— Frans De Waal
The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality.
— Dada Bhagwan
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
— Robin Day
It is easy to fall into the trap of believing that democracy will improve the function of policy.
— David Harsanyi
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
— George Bernard Shaw
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein ... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
— Frederick Pollock
It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
— Saint Augustine
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
— Alberto Manguel
I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.
— Meg Ryan
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
— Josef Albers
We didn't function in half ways and maybes. We were always. We were constant.
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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
— Edmund Phelps
A mind can be lost without its owner's death. A mind that no longer questions only fulfills the rudimentary aspects of its function.
— Josh Hanagarne
The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.
— Paul Park
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
— Joel A. Barker
The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
— Hippocrates
Power has a social function.
— Moises Naim
The purpose of subduing is a function of taking responsibility for the entire earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
— Ann Voskamp
TV dramas function as vehicles for remodeling female subjects for the new social order - in other words, as an agent for change.
— Jie Yang
That's the function of big brothers ... to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.
— Ryan Holiday
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
— David McCullough
Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.
— Joan Rivers
I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.
— J.R. Rim
What is the function of the heart, if not to convince the blood to stay moving with the limits where it belongs, to stay at home.
— Sunil Yapa
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
— Francis Schaeffer
Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.
— Henry Cloud
no matter how useful the electricity may be, it needs connections to function
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
— Cynthia Ozick
Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.
— Joseph Pilates
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?
— Louis O. Kelso
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
— Stokely Carmichael
A very important function of intelligence is the ability to premeditate. ~ Aarush Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam
Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?
— Arthur Nersesian
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
— Dylan Thomas
Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.
— Carol Saline
Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.
— John Kao
This kind of thing requires secrecy to function, so exposing all the secrets hurts them in the end. It's the only way this really, permanently stops.
— James S.A. Corey
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
— Alan Moore
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.
— Vincent Massey
The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
— Nicholson Baker
The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.
— Rudolph Ballentine
I don't think rock music has any positive function.
— Charlton Heston
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
— Tom Robbins
Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.
— Robin Sharma
Consumer society begins at the moment when what was once the province or function of the family and community migrates to the marketplace.
— John McKnight
Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.
— Ludwig Von Mises
PARENTHOOD: ROLE OR FUNCTION? Many
— Eckhart Tolle
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.
— Herbert Marcuse
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
— Colin Ward
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
— Timothy Keller
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
— Susan Neiman
Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
— Herbert Hoover
And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.
— Pat Metheny
The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
— Annie Dillard
Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.
— Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
The true function of sex is to bring more love into the world.
— Diana Richardson
Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby.
— Jared Diamond
The woman's function is to fascinate men.
— George Balanchine
Hope is a function of struggle.
— Brene Brown
My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.
— Michele Bachmann
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
— Chester W. Nimitz
So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.
— John Milton
The function of writing is to explode one's subject - transform it into something else. (Writing is a series of transformations).
— Susan Sontag
The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.
— Susanne Katherina Langer