Albers's teaching at the Bauhaus, at Black Mountain College, and at Yale University, which included the training of the body to draw with feeling (inspired in many ways by Itten's teaching of the Preliminary Course), would have the most profoundly formative effect on generations of artists and architects. (artspace.com)
Important concerns in T101537 are the identification of surface, the decisive, formative effect of the making of any mark on all subsequent stages in a painting, and the ritualistic character of the act of making marks. (tate.org.uk)
It's a big book, yes, but when read slowly it has an astonishing formative effect: it shapes how I see the world without me always realizing how (which is why you should skip the various popularizations of it and just dive in). (rachelheldevans.com)