Motifs Quotes

41 quotes by 34 authors

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
The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is… — Carl Jung
Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism — Jurgen Habermas
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose… — Gilles Deleuze
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
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
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
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so… — Claude Monet
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
The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. — Stephane Mallarme
It's a wonderful feeling just being in this creative motif. — Roy Ayers
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and… — Miroslav Vitous
I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to… — Clive Owen
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
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In… — Carl Jung
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
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
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
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
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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