Analysis Quote by Lee Gutkind

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't…

— Michael Schultz

I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a…

— Diego Rivera

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons…

— Ellen Glasgow

The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and…

— Henry Moore

The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of…

— Alice Walker

[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art…

— Van Morrison

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

— Rudyard Kipling

We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the…

— James Alexander Thom

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

— Marcel Duchamp

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can…

— William Deresiewicz

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy…

— Ron Shock

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

— Nikki Grimes

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

— Anonymous