Themes Quotes

236 quotes by 216 authors

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. — Stephen Gardiner
I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are… — John Currin
One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't… — William Friedkin
What can I but enumerate old themes? — William Butler Yeats
Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes… — Ryan Adams
Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one… — Pablo Picasso
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement… — William Howard Taft
Our theme is, 'Respected abroad, strong at home.' What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care… — Bill Richardson
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is… — Johannes Brahms
I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering. — Ruta Sepetys
Small minds can never handle great themes. — St. Jerome
I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the… — Charles de Lint
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way. — Mel Gibson
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the… — Francis Ford Coppola
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned… — Ronnie James Dio
When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal. — Lena Dunham
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues. — James Dyson
I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she… — Kathleen Hanna
But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with… — Penn Jillette

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