Approach Quote by John Schlesinger

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

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

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross…

— Paul Schrader

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

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

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

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

— George Edward Woodberry

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

— Jack Kerouac

I know I symbolize something. I don't really know what.

— Julio Cesar Chavez Sr

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

— Sigmund Freud

“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