Motif Quotes
26 quotes by 22 authors
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Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the…
— David Lammy
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On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too…
— Emanuel Lasker
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I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary…
— Gerhard Richter
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At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see…
— Edvard Munch
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In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the…
— Curt Sachs
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It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif.
— Roy Ayers
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And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif…
— Michel Foucault
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Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by…
— Edward Steichen
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If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S.…
— Madeleine Albright
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I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just…
— Albert Oehlen
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Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation…
— Andre Maurois
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If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification:…
— Gerhard Richter
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The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many…
— Edvard Munch
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One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the…
— Georges Braque
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The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the…
— Alfred Sisley
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Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength,…
— Robert Genn
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While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art…
— Robert Genn
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Obsession with self is the motif of our time.
— Charles Krauthammer
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The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
— Stanislav Grof
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This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only…
— Milan Kundera
Who Wrote These Motif Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 26 Motif Quotes as follows: