818 Quotes About Metaphor

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

But I feel myself marooned on the island of my self.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

For in metaphor Abstraction can give one kind of wind, Concretion another, and if one metaphor is complicated by another they can together untie the bag of all the other winds that toss us between reality and imagination.

It is evident, that though the mind receives a considerable pleasure from the discovery of resemblance, no pleasure is received when the resemblance is of such a nature as is familiar to every body. ... What gives the principal delight to the imagination, is the exhibition of a strong likeness, which escapes the notice of the generality of people.

There are as many metaphorical subtleties in architecture as there are in language, maybe more. The metaphorical power of architecture is inescapable and has many dimensions.

I believe in a metaphorical reality, but not in a metaphysical one.