Function Quote by John Divola

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime…

— John Divola

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

— Twyla Tharp

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

— Robin Morgan

“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means. I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

— Walter Savage Landor

“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing life? These…

— Joseph Campbell

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

— Dar Williams