The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. — Stanislav Grof 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely. — Arnulf Rainer 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
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