Body Quote by Robert Gober

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding…

— Christopher Nolan

That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond…

— Aldous Huxley

I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it,…

— Sarah Charlesworth

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

— Gustave Flaubert

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

— Kay WalkingStick

You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship. That's it.

— Anthony Evans

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in…

— Jerry Uelsmann

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

— Julio Cesar Chavez Sr

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

— Trevor Paglen

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

Words create pictures, and pictures in your mind create words. And then the words come back out your mouth…And when that spiritual force comes…

— Kenneth Copeland

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

— Mary Pratt