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
By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that… — Paul Gauguin 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
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
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
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 believe that eyes are very important motifs. Thats something that can discern the peace and love. — Yayoi Kusama 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
I've always been intrigued by things that insinuate femininity, so in my designs, something like a flower is never about the fact… — Erdem Moral?oglu Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard,… — George Saunders 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
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
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is… — Emanuel Lasker 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
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
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its… — Northrop Frye 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
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or… — Poppy Z. Brite 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
the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely. — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
