Abstraction Quote by Tobias Dantzig

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily…

— Simone Weil

“In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.”

— Paul Rand

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

— Jami Attenberg

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

“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

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

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

— Wilfrid Sheed

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

“Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say…

— Albert Camus

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

— P.D. Ouspensky

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

— Anonymous

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

— Umberto Eco