Quotes About Symbolism

Take this wine, my dear friend, and drink it up, for it is my very blood, and it is shed for you." All this makes you feel painfully uncomfortable, and so you shift in your chair and fumble in your pocket, all the time distracted by the silver that weighs heavy in your pouch.

Mange menneskers liv er kun henvisninger til det mulige. Trangen forbliver symbolsk, trykket reelt. Tryk avler angst, og angst indsnævrer livet. Det indo-europæiske ord 'angh' betyder snæver. Angst er snæverhed, som vi lader os trykke ned af.

A roupa tende pois a estar poderosamente associada com a memória ou, para dizer de forma mais forte, a roupa é um tipo de memória.

Judas' hair has a copperish hue, the artist picking up on a long tradition in Christianity of portraying him as a red-head which, according to medieval writers, was the sure sign of a moral degenerate. Shakespeare, in As You Like It, likens Orlando's hair to Judas' red mop, describing it as 'the dissembling colour' and one that reveals 'a deceiver from head to toe'.

We will focus attention on binary relations as these are by far the most important. If R ? S × S is a binary relation on S, it is common to use the notation aRb in place of (a, b) ? R.

I think I'll call you Cygnus," Chelsea said. "The swan?" I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse. She shook her head. "Black hole. Cygnus X-1.

At least with the Catholics, you know that when someone hands you a cracker there's gonna be wine in the mix at some point.

Symbolism and surrealism overlap in the way they give primacy to mental reality over objective reality, and this in turn gives rise to a certain kind of space. ("Introduction")

She drove to San Francisco for them and picked out two simple wedding bands, hers gold and Richard's platinum. When later asked why Richard told Doreen not to buy a gold ring for him, he said, "Because Satanists don't wear gold.

Of course even as Ave Bury, the "Ave" reverts back to the root of "Eve" which I know means "female serpent.

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood' all over the page, the paper would not be stained now would I bleed.

We all know the symbols for school: an apple, a red one-room schoolhouse, a bell. But those symbols never really worked for me.... If I had to pick one symbol that represents teaching, it wouldn't be any of these. It would be the bulletin board.

Before I was married, I thought the sound of bangles jangling on my forearms would be delightful. I looked forward to being able to wear bells around my ankles and silver necklaces around my neck, but not any more, not since I had learned what they represented for the man who gave them. A necklace was no prettier than a piece of of rope that ties a goat to a tree, depriving it of freedom.

These aren't accidents. They are significant choices, like the choice of a totemic animal: something in your spirit aligns with theirs.

No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological. A woman with an apple in her hand is the first woman, the only woman in the world. And he is the first man, he stumbles on love and he cant shake it,never,ever,ever..

I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

Plus l'artiste s'affirme comme tel en affirmant son autonomie, plus il constitue le « bourgeois », dans lequel on englobe, avec Flaubert, « le bourgeois en blouse et le bourgeois en redingote », comme « béotien » ou « philistin », inapte à aimer l'œuvre d'art, à se l'approprier réellement, c'est-à-dire symboliquement.

On est en effet dans un monde économique à l'envers : l'artiste ne peut triompher sur le terrain symbolique qu'en perdant sur le terrain économique (au moins à court terme), et inversement (au moins à long terme).

En réalité, comprendre la genèse sociale du champ littéraire, de la croyance qui le soutient, du jeu de langage qui s'y joue, des intérêts et des enjeux matériels ou symboliques qui s'y engendrent, ce n'est pas sacrifier au plaisir de réduire ou de détruire

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly visual and even poetic.

Flowers are just a natural thing in my life. I gravitate towards them so much, just in every video that I do, every visual, for some reason, flowers are incorporated.

To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes this country: young, curious, brimming with idealism and hope - and a real, honest compassion.

Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name of their candidate could vote for him or her anyway by recognizing the symbol under which they campaigned.