Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
“I can lose myself in symbolism as deeply as the next lit-geek...” — Tanya Egan Gibson 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
The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don't give a damn about my future, I won't either. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the first black presidency was mostly “symbolic,” a dismissal that deeply underestimates the power of symbols. Symbols… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The notion that an image is a scale model of something else (say, a horse) requires a different set of mental events… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
The symbolism of certain foods trip the nostalgic wire in all of us, whether the context is cultural heritage or geographic location. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is… — Dean F. Wilson Copy Share Image
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“As a sign of power the hand has a dynamic aspect: it is poised to act and conquer. Open and extended, it… — Hugues Boekraad Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
“Even people who no longer "believe in God" or participate in the institutional structure of patriarchal religion still may not be free… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
“It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters,… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“ A Blessing Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those… — James Wright Copy Share Image
Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His mouth went dry and for a split second he had a metallic taste on the sides of his tongue. He stood,… — Hugo Woolley Copy Share Image
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. — A. E. Waite 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 no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism. — Chino Moreno 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
![“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.” quote by Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/ernest-hemingway-83_old-man_then-there-is-the-other-secret-there-isn_2113368.jpg)
![“[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.” quote by Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4db/erich-fromm-367_accepting_sigmund-freud-did-not-under-stand-that-t_1839646.jpg)
![“The assignment of meanings [in music] is a shifting, kaleidoscopic play, probably below the threshold of consciousness, certainly outside the pale of discursive thinking. The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical, tinged with affect, tinged with bodily rhythm…” quote by Susanne K. Langer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cf/susanne-k-langer-83242_aesthetics_the-assignment-of-meanings-in-music-is-a_3110845.jpg)
