Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 366 authors

All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'. — Willis Harman
To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever… — John Carter Cash
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies,… — Kay Hooper
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled;… — Rod Liddle
Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The… — Rajneesh
CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and… — Ambrose Bierce
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that… — Hal Abelson
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels,… — Henry David Thoreau
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It… — Gilbert Murray
Food is the most primitive form of comfort. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook
The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of… — Curt Sachs
The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying:… — Katharine Hamnett
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for… — Sayyid Qutb
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree,… — Diego Rivera
Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble.… — T.H. White
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. — Frank Barron
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. — Henry James Sumner Maine
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men… — William Butler Yeats
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen. — Henry David Thoreau
It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a… — David Horowitz

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