I believe that eyes are very important motifs. Thats something that can discern the peace and love. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them;… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs,… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Motifs recur in independent fashion because they are universal. And when such events actually happen, people like to tell of them. Equally… — Joshua A. Berman Copy Share Image
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual,… — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely. — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
