Quotes About Symbolism

About 25 years ago, when I was 15, I wrote a song called 'Indradhanush', which speaks about the seven colours, equating each with emotions that we as human beings experience.

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

Orcas are my spirit animal. That's my favorite mammal.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Something old something new Something borrowed something blue.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.