Fog. The smallest particles of water condensate that accumulate in the air and create a light haze or impenetrable milky whitish jelly. What picture appears before your mind's eye when you hear or pronounce this word yourself?
Reasons for the popularity of “hazy” motifs in art
Fog mesmerizes or scares, calms or instills alarm. For each sensation is deeply subjective. That is why quotes about fog are so diverse, which can be found in world literature and cinema. Oscar Wilde was truly right when he said:
"The London fogs did not exist until art discovered them."
And his expression is true not only for the London mists. Fog has its own character, its own unique qualities, depending on how, where and when it is formed, how it spreads, what volume it occupies, how and what space it fills.
Fog in the city
Fog in the city is a phenomenon that turns everyday views into a riddle and a mirage, disorienting and confusing a person deprived of the soil of the world’s usual view of vision. About this phenomenon of the transformation of space and immersion in timelessness - lyrical and full of shades of feelings and colors quotes about fog in the city:
Fog over my city, fog.
Milk haze the streets are embraced.
And the watercolor image of the townspeople,
Blurred in gray-white cotton.
The world is completely transformed by fog, it has become completely different, blurred, ghostly, as if completely surreal. The author of the above poetic lines talks about the quiet miracle of fog and his enthusiasm for the transformation of Moscow.
Fog in the mountains
The fog in the mountains is a monumental and striking sight that can turn into mortal danger. He beckons, attracts and, at the same time, repels, makes you acutely worry. The fog seems to be a living creature with its own will. It spreads softly or descends like an avalanche. And this is the subject of reflection in such quotes about fog in the mountains, such as, for example, the following lines from Japanese poetry:
Only a sun balloon
rose over the mountains
the fog is creeping
on soft white legs
settling in the valley
a duvet.
Fog in the mountains causes catharsis. This shock, this, as Alexander Mitta figuratively put it in his book “Cinema between Paradise and Hell”,
a magical sense of joy and grief at the same time, what the Greeks called "purification."
The metaphorical meanings of fog
Often fog, for many reasons, takes on a metaphorical meaning in art, cinema, and literature. It can be a symbol of search, hostility, loss, loneliness, timelessness ... Each creator in his own way comprehends and uses this image, investing his own meaning. Here you can cite, perhaps, one very bright quote about fog:
We all have two lives: a genuine one, which we dream of in childhood and continue to dream of adults as if in a fog; and false, where we coexist with everyone else.
Fog often acts as a symbol of disorder, disorder, disorganization and carries negative connotations. Like Arthur Conan Doyle, for example, in Notes on Sherlock Holmes:
Fancy is better than fog in the head.
Two unstable entities are contrasted in this quote, and the fog loses in comparison, receiving a less flattering characteristic, due to the fact that it is chaotic, fills the entire volume, has no structure and purpose, while fantasies have false, but logical motives, structure basis. The fog in the head is from one to another and to nothing concrete. The image is based directly on the properties of a natural phenomenon.
Folk wisdom
In addition to understanding the artistic and the individual, the fog can be perceived collectively, more pragmatically than figuratively, however, despite this, it is bright and colorful. Quotations about fog from the inexhaustible piggy bank of folk wisdom can take a huge amount. Moreover, the fog does not always appear as a direct subject or object of action, it can be mentioned indirectly as one of the far from the most important elements of the thought embedded in the whole phrase, complementing the existing images and meanings.
The loser was going hunting - the mountains closed the fog.
This proverb is similar in meaning to the much more famous one - about a bad dancer and his legs hindering him. Any pretext is used as an excuse for failure and one's own laziness, work through the arms, unwillingness to work to achieve a result.