Motif Quotes
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The first Hali coins bearing the Charminar motif were silver rupee and four anna coins in 1904-1905. Nickle coinage for Hali came into vogue in 1919, when the round one-anna piece was minted.
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More Motif Quotes
Obsession with self is the motif of our time.
charles krauthammer— Column, October 18, 1999, "Nixon On the Couch" at jewishworldreview.com.
For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.
william-adolphe bouguereau— Attributed to Bouguereau in: Sotheby's (Firm). (1994) 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. p. 123; Cited in: Adolphe William Bouguereau Quotes by Armand Cabrera, Oct. 4, 2010
En anéantissant les désirs, on anéantit l'âme, & tout homme sans passion n'a en lui ni principe d'action, ni motif pour se mouvoir.
claude adrien helvétius— By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.
aung san— Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL (20 January, 1946)
My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little ‘Meditations’ (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.
alexej von jawlensky— 'Lebenserinnerungen' 1938, Alexej von Jawlensky; as quoted in Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam; exhibition catalogue 25/9 – 27/11-1994, p. 23
The designer of today, in most branches of art and particularly in the field of industrial design, needs more than vision and inspiration. This can be seen easily by anyone who will trouble himself to analyze the motif of some costly production and consider its chance to endure on the basis of artistic worth, rather than mere excellence of technical finish.
— Industrial Arts and Vocational Education. Vol. 11, 1922, p. 54
