Primitive Quotes

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.

Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

Primitive does not mean stupid.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis.

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.

The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.