Art Quote by Anton Ehrenzweig

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

I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to…

— Ray Bradbury

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

— Ken Danby

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

— Poul Henningsen

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

— Gene Tierney

“True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics,…

— Titus Burckhardt

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or…

— Richard Diebenkorn

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek.…

— Marc Chagall

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would,…

— Henri Matisse

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

— Mason Cooley

“The true danger of all symbols, metaphors, and images (tangible, visible) is that they may reduce the irreducible reality that stands behind them all.”

— Patrick D. Miller Jr