Iconography famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
-- Anish Kapoor

#Spiritual #Space #Iconography
The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.
-- George Sarton

#Thinking #Iconography #Fruit
Iâ€™m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
-- Gregory Crewdson

#Anxiety #Desire #Iconography
Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.
-- James Wolcott

#Men #Mad #Iconography
If geography is prose, maps are iconography,
-- Lennart Meri

#Iconography #Maps #Geography
I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.
-- Mariko Mori

#Past #Order #Iconography
Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.
-- Stephen Marche

#Men #Iconography #Want
We were all inspired by him as an actor and his iconography and thought, if we get somebody like Laurence Fishburne, we can tell a much more sophisticated, complicated version of Jack Crawford than we'd seen before as this large and in-charge and in-control guy, who is unflappable.
-- Bryan Fuller

#Guy #Iconography #Actors

It looked like Ben Stiller was one of the showbiz meteorites who was moving so fast he would soon have no worlds left to conquer.
Find one correct answer and let the rest disappear.
If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.
I can make the best French toast.
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.
As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then with the Witness or primordial Self, then with each previous stage taken up, enfolded, included, and embraced in the radiance of One Taste. And that means we do not "get rid" of the small ego, but rahter, we inhabit it fully, live it with verve, use it as the necessary vehicle through which higher truths are communicated. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind; they do not erase them.
No, the United States does not target civilians.
I decided a long time ago I would feed on the vultures until a dove came along. A pigeon. The kind of soul that didn't impede on anyone; just walked around worrying about its own business, trying to get through life without pulling everyone else down. With its own needs and selfish habits. Brave. A communicator. Intelligent. Beautiful. Soft-spoken. A creature that mates for life. Unattainable until she has a reason to trust you.
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.