Deploying Quote by Sarah Charlesworth

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

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.”

— Huston Smith

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

— B. W. Powe

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

— Jack Kerouac

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

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

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

— Mason Cooley

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are…

— Rollo May

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

What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will do the…

— Miroslav Penkov