The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. — Stanislav Grof 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We've tried to use some visual motifs [in Beauty and the Beast]. As far as the cinematography and the lensing and all… — Brian Wayne Peterson Copy Share Image
Whenever I work on the computer, I have folders and you know how you always give everything working titles, if you have… — Page Hamilton 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
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
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
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
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
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
The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at… — Edvard Munch 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
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose… — William-Adolphe Bouguereau Copy Share Image
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition,… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Just as a classical dancer repeats the same movements again and again, in order to achieve a greater perfection of line and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I watched Westerns from the time I was a girl. My dad was a big Western fan. I always loved Clint Eastwood… — Kimberly Elise Copy Share Image
While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image