I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.
I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.
Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.
To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
Israel is not an aviary.
Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.
Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.
In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.
Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing. It's very telling what your choice would be. Because that's probably how you see yourself. We used to play that game as kids and you'd say if you were animal what would you be and it'd usually be the opposite of what it should be. But all animals have got their virtues. You know, cockroaches got virtues.
Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.
The wolf must die in his own skin.
I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.
