Quotes About Myth

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

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.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Shark snorts. " Hope ? What's that? I heard about it once, in a fairy tale.

A ghost! Mr. Crepsley shouted. Absurd! Absolutely, Gavner agreed with a grin. Vampires don't believe in crazy things like ghosts, do we, Larten?

and deeply seductive, storytelling tropes that you see in cinema.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous. Who made up that rule? It's a known fact...

In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness

The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long.

As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Todo ser nuevo que encontramos viene de otro relato y es el puente que une dos leyendas y dos mundos.

Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fern.

From Spanish conquistadores to the propagandists for the American Way of Life, the New World has been hymned as a potential paradise. The paradise that the Middle Ages had sought became secularized as the land of unlimited possibilities.

I'm down here looking at the Potomac River; they say George Washington threw a silver dollar across it once. It looks a little bit too far for me to do that trick, but maybe he could. After all, a dollar went further in those days.

Some humans claim to be made in God's image - what an insult to God. There are, however, in the northern reaches of our Earth, small tribes who can still remember that God looked like a bear.

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

It's a natural law (or supernatural, if you're so inclined) that weird things appear where people tend to disappear. African jungles, Pacific islands, Himalayan wastelands—wherever expeditionary parties go missing, that's where lost species, Stonehengey stone idols, the flitting shadows of yetis, and ancient, unsurrendering Japanese soldiers are sure to pop up. The

Just because men and women of our era don't live up to the myths doesn't mean no one ever has, or ever will again.