A Quote by Joseph Campbell

The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell
American - Author
March 26, 1904 - October 31, 1987

When I'm onstage, I have to have primer. Actually, the more primer, the less makeup I have to put on.

Grace Potter

You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.

Jeff Foxworthy

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Arnold Bennett

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

Alan Watts

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

Frederick Lenz

In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.

Philippe Claudel

Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.

Rosalia

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

Paulo Coelho

You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand.

Paulo Coelho

An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.

Timothy Foote

You can give me any of Shakespeare's plays and I'll tell you a parallel African folktale.

John Kani

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Pablo Picasso

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

Paul Di Filippo

I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

Svetlana Alexievich

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

George Bernard Shaw

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