Quotes About Symbolism

Take these, said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question.

Because a lady wearing high heels leaves deeper footprints than an elephant.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.