Absence Quote by Eugene Delacroix

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper…

— Joan D. Vinge

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.

— Isabel Bishop

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is very difficult to shoot mythological shows. The costumes and the make up are very time consuming... It definitely takes a toll on…

— Puneet Issar

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales

“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring…

— Karen Armstrong

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

“The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge--what does all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

— Wole Soyinka

We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

— Irina Shayk