Become Quote by Jami Attenberg

“The symbol is not a mere formality; it is the very essence of algebra. Without the symbol the object is a human perception and…

— Tobias Dantzig

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

— Ezra Pound

The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance.…

— Wally Olins

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

— Thomas C Foster

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

— P.D. Ouspensky

All things are symbols.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

— Roy Lichtenstein

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly…

— Carl Jung

“A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is no word-for-word…

— Albert Camus

Things are symbols of themselves.

— Allen Ginsberg

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

— Anonymous

Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts.

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt