Quotes About Symbolism

A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

I wore the gold for some reasons. One, as a Christian.When Jesus was born wise men bring him gold.No wise man brought bling. Bling is not in The Bible.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.

The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

Gold is the corpse of value...

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.

The central icon of Catholic Christianity is mother and child. That motif is so deep in not just our human experience but in our animal, biological past.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.