Evoke Quotes

• Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

  Rene Magritte

  Motivational, Art, Serendipity

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• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Nature, Rain, Writing

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• If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

  James Connolly

  Spirit, Republican, Prison

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• The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Art, Creative, Principles

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

  April Greiman

  Creativity, Emotional, Design

  April Greiman (1990). “Hybrid imagery: the fusion of technology and graphic design”, Watson-Guptill Pubns

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• It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Easy, Hours

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• The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.

  Edmund Gibson

  Blessing

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• The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Jobs, Garden

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

  Charles Dickens

  Confidence, Wonder, Circumstances

  Charles Dickens (1859). “All the Year Round”, p.553

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• Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

  Joseph Campbell

  Character, Goes On, About Yourself

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.

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• To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Expression

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness, they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So, too, is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Attachment, Doe

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• Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.

  Frederick Hart

  Dream, Art, Giving

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• I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

  James D'arcy

  Strong, Passion, Perspective

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• As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

  Don Bluth

  Jobs, Hero, Journey

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• My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

  Rene Magritte

  Mean, Artist, Simple

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• Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Might, Institutions, Said

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• Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Real, Mean

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• The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

  Ken Kesey

  Needs, Answers, Mystery

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

  Ken Kesey

  Garden, Strange, Mystery

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

  Ken Kesey

  Interesting, Answers, Mystery

  "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

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• The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wit, Wittiest

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• Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

  Oliver Sacks

  Memories, Emotion

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• It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

  Viola Spolin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

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• I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

  Amy Tan

  Writing, Simple, Ideas

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.181, Penguin

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