Quotes About Symbolism

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

Reality is symbolicof an unseen insanity

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People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.