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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because… — DJ Spooky 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
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs… — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship… — Aung San 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
Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,… — David Lynch 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
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
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
One of the things I try to do is try to make repetitions, rhymes, and mirrorings across the subject matter of my… — Marina Warner 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
I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike… — Fatih Ak?n 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
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
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
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
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