Quotes About Symbolism

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

I usually wear my Hall of Fame ring on a more regular basis because it is more like a college ring. It is a little more understated. The Super Bowl ring is kind of loud, but I take great pride in those two things.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.

It is weird, the relationship between people and food. It's always deeper than you think. It always stands for something else.

In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

Colors express the main psychic functions of man.

There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom.

DOWN A PEG (OR TWO) Humbled. An admiral flew his personal standard at the highest point of the mast, attached by rope to one of a series of pegs at its base. If a more senior admiral came aboard, the original standard would be taken down a peg or two to make room for the new flag. DRESSING

Lincoln died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in the Ford Theatre. Kennedy died from a bullet to the head while he sat next to his wife in a Ford car.

world of elliptical allusions and allegory. And a lot of what they wrote was designed

All bones are white and our blood is red