Bergman Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative…

— Julian Hawthorne

“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.”

— Huston Smith

I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it,…

— Sarah Charlesworth

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

— Jack Kerouac

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations…

— Manly Hall

I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an…

— Joanna Lohman

A label is a soul-tattoo that is ingrained deep in our hearts, so much so that it determines how we see ourselves, And how…

— Derwin L. Gray

“However, the natural symbol, without our being sufficiently conscious of the fact, is identical with the reality of the world that appears to us,…

— Erich Neumann

“Archetypes to symbols to thought-forms to emotions to motions to manifestations; that's how it flows. Everything and everyone originates in step one. Even me,…

— Yannis Karatsioris

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with…

— Haruki Murakami

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so…

— Carrie Coon