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You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

— Emily Carr

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

— Saul Steinberg

I don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.

— Billy Collins

Being the lowest one on the totem pole is sometimes the fun part to play.

— Stephnie Weir

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

— Black Elk

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

— John Ruskin

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

— Edvard Munch

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

— Yayoi Kusama

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

— James Nachtwey

Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.

— Ridley Scott

✗Opposing Perspectives

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

— Louise Bourgeois