Quotes About Symbolism

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.

Pottery - the whole romance of humanity can be expressed in terms of poetry.

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

Gently, I open the door to eternal mystery, the flowers of my breasts cupped, offered with both my hands.

If all men are brothers outside of any specifically human paradigm then no one can truly be a brother. The institution of a symbolically universal "paternity" annihilates the very possibility of true fraternity, in such a way that it proclaims itself in the absolute by the very thing that destroys it.

Existe un perpetuo ir y venir entre la lectura y el beso, circunstancia de la que dan fe numerosos ejemplos literarios.

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.

After a moment, there was a quiet splash, and the mourners said together, "Remember, God, that we are of dust." One by one they stepped to the rail, where they released handfuls of sand—the sand Josef's father had told him to take from the sandbox. Josef joined his father at the rail, and they scattered their sand in the sea.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

She named him after the Dog Star, the brightest star in the night sky.

There's a lot of places where the image of a cube as a thing of power is pertinent. I don't know why that is. I don't have any mythic explanation for it, but it seems to work for people.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

'Everything is four' is a phrase that has been coined before me. Four is a number of completion. Four is a number that's literally all around.

At the end of 'Endgame,' the shield was given to Sam and he said, 'It feels like it's someone else's.' That conversation, for me, was the most important conversation to have. A Black man picking up the shield - what was that going to look like?

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that's been part of my culture.

There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.