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• I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

  John Divola

  Sublime, Looks, Photograph

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• My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can always recognize the children, but they are alienated from their real appearance and become more like metaphors.

  Loretta Lux

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

  Shirin Neshat

  Symbolism, Different, Use

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• It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels - obviously visual aesthetics, but also content and narrative in terms of the bigger picture. When document and metaphor come together.

  Paolo Pellegrin

  Numbers, Feelings, Together

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• I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.

  Robert Polidori

  Photography, Thinking, Sight

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• The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

  Thomas Struth

  Photograph, Function, Propose

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• The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

  Bernard Levin

  Patient, Results, Found

  Bernard Levin (1986). “In these times”, Jonathan Cape

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• I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

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  Ram Dass

  Doorways, Different, Looks

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• I believe people have different ways of approaching the Word. For me, it's metaphor, written by people a long time after Christ died and interpreted by specific groups. I read the gospels that aren't included in the Bible. These make me feel good about calling myself a Christian.

  Jane Fonda

  Christian, Believe, Long

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• If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully we parse our Hebrew and Greek sentences, no matter how precisely we use our dictionaries and trace our etymologies, no matter how exactly we define the words on the page, if we do not appreciate the way a metaphor works we will never comprehend the meaning of the text.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Appreciate, Greek, Use

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• There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level but is not really anything that I care about if people get or not so I write alot of the stuff as metaphors based in Viking mythology and Viking History which is sort of my main interest in life and sort of my main atmosphere in life.

  Johan Hegg

  Writing, People, Atmosphere

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• I'm not conscious of my own themes as I write first drafts, no, and in fact, I work hard to stay in that unconscious space and not ask myself what the novel is about or what my metaphors might mean because then, I think, you're just dead in the water.

  Laurie Foos

  Hard Work, Writing, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Reflection, Impact, World

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• Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.

  Immortal Technique

  Creativity, Soul, Facts

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

  Harrison Ford

  Baseball, America, World

  "PUM One on One with Harrison Ford". Interview with Kam William, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Irony, Accepting, Protagonists

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.215, Random House

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• We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Order, Magic, Monsters

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• To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Character, Elude You

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• American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

  John Updike

  Art, Self, Work Ethic

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• ...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.

  Austin Farrer

  Heart, Flying, Doe

  Austin Farrer (2012). “Reflective Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, Interesting, Elysium

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Party, Home, New Orleans

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Strong, Stupid

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• Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

  Grant Morrison

  Thinking, Medicine, Groups

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• A single metaphor can give birth to love.

  Milan Kundera

  Giving, Unbearable, Birth

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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