Approach Quote by Robert Grudin

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a…

— Genesis P-Orridge

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson

Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I…

— Gerhard Richter

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

— Jordan Wolfson

Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate…

— Polly Young-Eisendrath

As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.

— Nick Littlemore

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

— James Geary

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding…

— Wendell Pierce

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

— George Lakoff

“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist approach extends…

— Eric Kandel

I'm really easily moved, and I really believe, philosophically, that everything in the world exists at every point in time, in every gesture, in…

— RaMell Ross