Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. — Andrew Eldritch Copy Share Image
“Pain speaks louder than words ever could. Like most things it serves as both messenger and a symbol.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism. — Chino Moreno Copy Share Image
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso. — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
A plastic bag charge is far from representing mere climate change symbolism. It is a clarion call to us all to alter… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in… — Stanley Greene Copy Share Image
“The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“There is more to love than what is written on the pages of romance books. There is more to love than pictures… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between my view and the classical Christian perspective? I am convinced that there are not multiple comings and… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Food is life. Food is also very sensual, and in Pushing Daisies, pie being reflective of life and a man who was… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc and the Thunder… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The Ego is ignorant towards both sigils and symbols, but they both give the Ego a flow of knowledge from themselves. All… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“Having set its mark on the generation before Cocteau’s, symbolism expressed a form of inner dissidence confronting the narrow-minded materialism and utilitarian… — Claude Arnaud Copy Share Image
“... as a convention, you get up and walk to the window to make the audience believe that you're looking out. It's… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity;… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England winters can be very cold. The curtains he'd… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.” — Karl Petzke Copy Share Image
“ He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism...” — Walter J. Moore Copy Share Image
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
“Sirius was not merely a star to them. It was a symbol—a guide, a witness to the birth and death of worlds.” — Viktor Tonchev Copy Share Image
In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry. — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
“I can lose myself in symbolism as deeply as the next lit-geek...” — Tanya Egan Gibson Copy Share Image
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