Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

I like mythology - anything historical.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

I used to like Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology. All mythology!

I love historical references.

I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

Folktales are real.

Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.