Details Quote by Emily Carr

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom.

— Mason Cooley

“The tribe that confuses its totems and symbols with reality has succumbed to fetishism and may be in more trouble than it realises.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are…

— Kevin Young

“The forms of the central and surrounding deities... should not be protruding like a clay statue or cast image, yet neither should they be…

— Jigme Lingpa

“You must tell the true story of the Arkstone and the Toltecs — and the Turanians. Through you and your tale those who are…

— Candace L. Talmadge

For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the…

— Lucretius

“Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.”

— Gabriel Brunsdon

“although we very clearly see the sun, we ought not therefore to determine that it is only of the size which our sense of…

— Anonymous

“We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which He…

— C.S. Lewis

“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself…

— Gunter Brus