Salman Rushdie Quotes

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Light knows when you're looking at it.

There is no story that is not true.

What is this universe but name and form?

Time itself is an element.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

The visible becomes inevitable.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.