Best Motifs Quotes

41 Motifs quotes by 34 unique authors

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
Obsession with self is the motif of our time. — Charles Krauthammer
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. — Stanislav Grof
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important… — Keanu Reeves
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves -… — Vivienne Westwood
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
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow… — Margaret Atwood
D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind… — Gilles Deleuze
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… — Milan Kundera
motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love… — David Levithan
You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that… — Soren Kierkegaard
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer.… — Poppy Z. Brite
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism… — Martin Filler
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and… — Diane Ackerman
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I want… — Guy Gavriel Kay
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy… — Guy Gavriel Kay

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