Adventure Quote by Roland Barthes

On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“That is to say, mimesis, unlike the explicit imitation of one person by another, is never something that one agent does to another, but…

— Scott R. Garrels

“There is no reason to assume that the unceasing forward march of techne will not eventually achieve a mimesis which replaces a natural world…

— Jean Baudrillard

Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less…

— Matthew Zapruder

Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy mockery as…

— Steve Almond

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

— Tony Hoagland

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion…

— John Fowles

Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category…

— Theodor Adorno

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“If we are right in claiming that mimesis, like the god Janus, is double-faced, both philosophical in theoretical conception and artistic in affective dramatization,…

— Nidesh Lawtoo

To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh,…

— Jonas Mekas