Actually Quote by Caroline Polachek

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

— Mark Rothko

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or…

— Peter Straub

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of…

— Stephen King

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches…

— H. L. Mencken

“It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits…

— Thomas Hardy

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

— Helene Grimaud

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

We've tried to use some visual motifs [in Beauty and the Beast]. As far as the cinematography and the lensing and all that, we…

— Brian Wayne Peterson

“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human race. We…

— Jan Siegel

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a…

— Joshua Mohr

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

— Thomas Bulfinch

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

— Max Luthi