Arnulf Rainer
Artist
"the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely."
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Motifs
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Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious."
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