Quotes About Symbolism

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

On a meaningful day, everything you wear can have meaning. It becomes what I wore That Day, whether that day is a beginning or an end.

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

You know, you want to win and you want a ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.

Rituals are magical.

For me, India symbolises a big fire and a big river.

Robert Browning - I like his dramatic revelations, his allegorical form.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

One rose says more than the dozen.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

I had earlier done a few paintings on Durga because I am fascinated by her.

Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.

It never came into question, taking the name away or changing it. Panic! has always symbolised some form of excitement that I couldn't get elsewhere.

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.

Onions are sacred to the Yezidis, perhaps because they have many layers and are thus "esoteric.")

Just outside Tehran we passed a sign that said, 'Servitude is never accepted in an ideology that believes in Martyrdom'. Below was a picture of a white dove copping a bullet in the heart.

Iconography, good iconography, strives to convey invisible reality in a visible form.

What is the Spanish word for wife? Esposa. What is the Spanish word for handcuffs? Esposas. That's not a coincidence.