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Motif Quotes by Milan Kundera
- 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…
- While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together…
More Motif Quotes
- Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the… — Unknown Author
- On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is… — Emanuel Lasker
- I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is… — Gerhard Richter
- At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition,… — Edvard Munch
- In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani… — Curt Sachs
- It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif. — Roy Ayers
- And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has… — Michel Foucault
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the… — Andre Maurois
- 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