Art Quote by Joseph Campbell

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

— Joseph Campbell

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

— Joseph Campbell

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some…

— John Bierhorst

“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are funerals. The…

— V.E. Schwab

“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

— Alan Watts

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

The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in…

— Joseph Campbell

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

— Joseph Campbell

“They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no…

— C. G. Jung