Quotes About Symbolism

Perched on a dust-blown plain at the junction of the White Nile and Blue Nile, Khartoum had once been a British garrison town; its avenues were laid out in the form of the Union Jack.

Consider the logistics of a god who has eight arms and three penises coupling with a goddess who has four arms and nine vaginas.

Beyond that box camera he saw in a shop window in Chicago in seventh grade, Dad has never wanted anything, as far as I know. He still coos over the tennis balls and Old Spice we give him every birthday, Father's Day, and Christmas. And yet he understands the symbolic power that an earned object holds.

I'm not going to lie — other creatures as well as humans adore roses.

We create our own omens, I think, and then mystify ourselves trying to understand their significance.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

I love snakes.

I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

the apple couldn't cross the Atlantic without changing its identity—a fact that encouraged generations of Americans to hear echoes of their own story in the story of this fruit. The apple in America became a parable.

A film is a system, not of meanings, but of signifiers.

To hear men talk of metonomies, metaphors, and allegories, and other grammar words, would not one think they signified some rare and exotic form of speaking? And yet they are phrases that come near to the babble of my chambermaid. And

In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.

We are all making distinct and separate impressions of this moment. Wherever we are and whatever we're doing, the moment is real but we're telling our own story about it. This is the wonderful magic of the human mind - to turn real things into symbols and Impressions, but we shouldn't forget that the body responds emotionally to our kind of Magic.

Right now, you're delivering a message to yourself and to everyone else around you. You're always delivering a message, and you're always receiving a message from one mind to another mind. What is the message that you are delivering in this world? Is the message impeccable? Do you even notice that you are always using symbols?

All humans are artists, all of us. Every symbol, every word, is a little piece of art. From my point of view, and thanks to our programming, our greatest masterpiece of art is the use of a language to create an entire virtual reality within our mind.

what will be said of those who have never met Hitler in the physical body, but have also felt and continue to feel magically united with Him, to his struggle; even those born after his disappearance and in countries so far away! The expressions symbolic figures, Archetype, collective unconscious are hypotheses that attempt to explain the mystery.

In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.