Quotes About Symbolism

Words are but the signs of ideas.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

I believe in numbers and signs.

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

I personally have a silver idol of Lord Ganesh that I reuse every year. Don't measure your devotion with the size of the idol.

I had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great.

The mana of the silver fern comes from all of you and I will wear it with pride.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for? They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

Le habría gustado ser uno de esos árboles, con los brazos extendidos hacia el cielo y los pies hundidos en la tierra. Pero sólo era una mujer, demasiado pequeña para llegar al sol.

As long as people have been on this earth, the moon has been a mystery to us. Think about it. She is strong enough to pull the oceans, and when she dies away, she always comes back again. My mama used to tell me Our Lady lived on the moon and that I should dance when her face was bright and hibernate when it was dark.

Putting black cloths on the hives is for us. I do it to remind us that life gives way into death, and then death turns around and gives way into life.

When a bee flies, a soul will rise

The bees came the summer of 1964

A Divine Feminine symbol acts to deconstruct patriarchy, which is one of the reasons there's so much resistance, even hysteria, surrounding the idea of Goddess. The idea of Goddess is so powerfully "other," so vividly female, it comes like a crowbar shattering the lock patriarchy holds on divine imagery.

The shape she loved was a triangle. Always black. Mauma put black triangles on about every quilt she sewed.

Bees swarm before death. She was full of crazy ideas that I ignored, but I lay there thinking about this one, wondering if the bees had come with my death in mind.

creativity. I always return to the idea of her virginity, how it symbolizes self-belonging. I believe the possibility of that exists in a woman. It's

I am the first and the last I am she who is honored and she who is mocked I am the whore and the holy woman I am the wife and the virgin I am the mother and the daughter I am she . . . Do not be afraid of my power . . . I am the knowledge of my name I am the name of the sound and the sound of the name

how much room it would take to build a giant vagina

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.

Hay algo depredador en la acción de hacer una foto. Fotografiar personas es violarlas, pues se las ve como jamás se ven a sí mismas, se las conoce como nunca pueden conocerse; transforma a las personas en objetos que pueden ser poseídos simbólicamente. Así como la cámara es una sublimación del arma, fotografiar a alguien es cometer un asesinato sublimado, un asesinato blando, digno de una época triste, atemorizada.

painting. Carefully, I took down the goat, the chicken, and me and