Ancient Quote by Tanith Lee Download Open image “We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.” — Tanith Lee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Art Expressive Needs Priests Scribes Storyteller Writing
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing… — Arthur Lismer Copy Share Image
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Having told of so much beauty, how is it possible to tell of her? There are no words left on the earth in any… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.” — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“All the Scarabae—all but one—were crowded in the garden. They watched her. Their grim old faces gave away nothing. Like elderly kiddies at a… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
