| The Orphic literature influenced many Bacchic mystery groups in antiquity. |
| 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. |
| In The Flutist, an Orphic piper with a mother-of-pearl face charms fossilized rocks, which rise from the grassy ground to assemble a ziggurat ascending to the ether. |
| The works of the Orphic artist must simultaneously give a pure aesthetic pleasure, a structure which is self-evident, and a sublime meaning, that is, a subject. |
| We may also take it that he was familiar with all sorts of Orphic and Pythagorean sectaries. |
