Art Quote by Rick Riordan

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with…

— Amish Tripathi

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

— Jeff Bridges

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

— Karen Russell

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for…

— Elizabeth Hand

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

“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and…

— Jo Walton

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

— Stellan Skarsgard

I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the…

— Robert Jordan

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…

— Anonymous

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the…

— Julie Taymor