Mythic Quotes

63 quotes by 56 authors

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get… — Alan Ball
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment… — Judy Chicago
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true… — Chris Van Allsburg
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the… — Shirley Hazzard
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit… — Andrea Dworkin
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people… — Judy Chicago
We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died. The groundwork for… — Danny Glover
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. — Angela Carter
Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of… — Carl Jung
If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-â€‹destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once… — Walter Benjamin
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space.… — Jon Krakauer
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society… — Mircea Eliade
I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction. — Peter Benchley
Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won. — Terri Windling
Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for… — Margaret Visser
When I left the theaterâ€¦ I was thinking that Iâ€™d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of… — Arlene Croce
When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the… — Michael Meade
The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections â€” not only between us and the natural… — Alan Lee

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