Art Quote by Dan Ben-Amos Download Open image “Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.” — Dan Ben-Amos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artistic Communication Folklore Groups Small groups
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational standards and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us and the… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can… — Marianna Mayer Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
