Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 353 authors

Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized… — Stephen Bayley
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all… — Horace
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the… — George Eliot
Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only… — John Ciardi
If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the… — William James
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. — John Updike
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific… — Robert Motherwell
Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are… — Jean Dubuffet
I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic… — Sean William Scott
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. — Kazimir Malevich
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
When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it… — E. J. Hughes
The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery. — E. J. Hughes
I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how… — Walt Disney
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man… — Rachel Carson
One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very… — Golda Meir
It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains… — Albert Einstein
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. — Frank X. Barron
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which… — Henry Adams

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