Sublimation Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more.… — Ludwig Binswanger
Being an actress is the sublimation of feminity. — Monica Bellucci
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events,… — Ansel Adams
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone, but on your… — Rajneesh
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression.… — Iannis Xenakis
To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths--good and terrible, overwhelming and… — Kate Christensen
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take… — Salvador Dali
I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained… — Louise Bourgeois
To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for… — Roy Blount, Jr.
Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad,… — Susan Sontag
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility. — Remy de Gourmont
Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight… — Robert Winston
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have;… — Susan Sontag
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. — Robert Hughes
Sublimation of instinct is an especially conspicuous feature of cultural development; it is what makes it possible for higher psychical activities, scientific, artistic or ideological,… — Sigmund Freud
After the dreadful frustrationsFreudians have experienced with my other books, I am sure they will refrain from inflicting upon Waltz a sublimation of the push-button… — Vladimir Nabokov

Who Wrote These Sublimation Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Sublimation Quotes as follows: