Metaphor For Art Quotes

#1. Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

Rene Magritte

#2. Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

Michael Ayrton

#3. The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Daniel Goleman

#4. Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable ... I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

Erik Naggum

#5. I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

Dani Shapiro

#6. An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Samuel Johnson

#7. There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit.

Jonathan Galassi

#8. He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.

Lady Caroline Lamb

#9. Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level..

Stephen Shore

#10. I am a musicologist, a doctor of music. Therefore I listened to, studied and analysed a lot of music. I also enjoy metaphors, the art of quoting and of cycles.

James Horner

#11. Art was there to scratch at people's brains, to help ideas find traction in metaphor that they could not when made explicit.

Rebecca Scherm

#12. To put all this in the form of another traditional metaphor, aesthetic styles - patterns for communicating feeling and thought - become dull with use, like carving knives, and since dullness is the chief enemy of art, each generation of artists must find new ways of slicing the fat off reality.

John Gardner

#13. Love is self-explanatory: the right person makes you feel well nigh immortal, vaccinating you with their affections. So long as you remain in their heart you are safe, or better than safe even, for a while at least. You are momentarily, in a state of grace.

Jonathan Hull

#14. If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Peter Shaffer

#15. I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

Mark Nepo

#16. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art. - TWYLA THARP

Daniel H. Pink

#17. It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.

Sarah Hall

#18. I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

Anthony Bourdain

#19. A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

Denis Donoghue

#20. Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].

David Lynch

#21. Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor.

Robert Grudin

#22. Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs.

Debasish Mridha

#23. I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Amanda Palmer

#24. Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

John Henry Holland

#25. I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.

Ezra Pound

#26. "I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

Gregory Palamas

#27. When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.

John Marshall