| Of such a nature, and connected in particular with the improvement of the arts of life, were the Dionysiac and Orphic arts. |
| We usually think of the Orphic myth as a story about the artist's deadly gaze and the power of his art, about love and its fatal moment of madness. |
| The Orphic priests of old Greece most nearly resembled the shamans of the savages. |
| With their kaleidoscopic color shifts and vibrations, their blurred halos, the Sisters reminded her of Sonia Delaunay's Orphic paintings. |
| Yet how does one distill the Orphic essence from its various and utterly distinctive incarnations? |
| And Orphic purity was mainly, though not entirely, the result of moral discipline. |
