Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers. — Henry Noel Brailsford Copy Share Image
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
“I hate when people say primitive people didn’t even have running water. What do they call rivers?” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set. — Luciano Vincenzoni Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In terms of their basic biochemical design…no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor… — Ahad Ha'am Copy Share Image
Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,'… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I know I am a human being. I can give myself to one year for a project. That is why I say… — Tehching Hsieh Copy Share Image
Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Vengeance is primitive; which is why only two species in the universe practice it: humans and animals.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature. — Lynn Jennings Copy Share Image
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience. — Ingrid Bengis Copy Share Image
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
We have grown from primitive man into modern ways and are now looking for modern humans from merely primitive choices — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image