Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.
Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about how they would work as an anime. But I do believe that those are great books because they work best as novels, or great manga work best in that form.
A painted surface is a real, living form.
I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.
Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.
There's a kind of passionate expression in all my pieces. It's just that the nature of the expression takes different forms.
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.
Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
One mustn't let technique be the consciously important thing. It should be at the service of expressing the form.
Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.
With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.
Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
