Anything Quote by Marcel Duchamp

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

— Dan Brown

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

— Rudolph Valentino

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

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like…

— Stan Smith

It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words!…

— Pablo Picasso

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Herbert Read

“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

When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the symbol is…

— Cecil Taylor

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

— Albert Camus

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

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

— Roy Lichtenstein