Defined Quote by P.D. Ouspensky

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

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is…

— M. C. Escher

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

— Umberto Eco

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

— Anonymous

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

— Dan Brown

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

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

— Thomas C Foster

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

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

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds…

— Mary Robinson