Quotes About Symbolism

Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.

Gold is gold everywhere, fungible and indifferent. But when a disk of gold is stamped by a coiner with certain pompous words and the picture of a King, it takes on added value -- seigneurage. It has that value only in that people believe that it does -- it is a shared phant'sy.

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.

If it's wearing red, yellow, or both, it's a lama," he said. "Bow to it.

If he's got a big yellow scarf over his left shoulder, he's the king. Bow lower in that case.

To shave off the beard (or any body hair) is to symbolically annihilate the (essentially specious) boundary separating Self from Other

I saw a painting once where the artist had actually done that--signed his work in blood. ... When I saw that, I thought it was as if the man who had painted the picture wanted to say to me, Well, you did ask what this actually cost.

The Cosmic Perspective reminds us that in space, where there is no air, a flag will not wave. An indication that perhaps flag-waving and space exploration do not mix.

A perspectiva cósmica nos lembra que no espaço, onde não há ar, uma bandeira não tremula - um indício de que talvez agitar bandeiras e explorar o espaço não conbinam.

Perspektywa kosmiczna przypomina nam, ?e w przestrzeni pozaziemskiej, gdzie nie ma powietrza, flaga nie zaÅ'opocze Ã¢â'¬â€œ co wydaje siÄ™ wskazówkÄ…, ?e by? mo?e wymachiwanie flagami i eksploracja kosmosu nie idÄ… w parze.

Flynn looked back over the Cathedral and glanced at the blueprints. This building was shaped like a cross.

What Waringa tried hard to avoid was looking at the pictures of the walls and windows of the church. Many of the pictures showed Jesus in the arms of the virgin Mary or on the cross. But others depicted the devil, with two cow-like horns and a tail like a monkey's, raising one leg in a dance of evil, while his angels, armed with burning pitchforks, turned over human beings on a bonfire. The Virgin Mary, Jesus and God's angels were white, like European, but the devil and his angels were black.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

I am inspired by Indian mythology.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

There are so many - namely black and brown bodies - who have experienced a different America than what the mainstream American flag symbolizes.

I've always been interested in Catholic iconography. My dad's from Naples and I was brought up in a Roman Catholic school.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.