Artist Quote by Jack Goody

Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music has always…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are…

— Rollo May

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

— Sigmund Freud

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by…

— Kenneth Clark

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture…

— James Balog

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is…

— Lewis Mumford

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

— Herbert Read

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

What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will do the…

— Miroslav Penkov

I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness…

— Graham Cray

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the…

— Diana Wynne Jones

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

— Dan Brown