Quotes About Symbolism

You try to picture how the world might appear, this world dense with writing that surrounds us on all sides, to someone who has learned not to read.

Se volessi scegliere un simbolo augurale per l'affacciarsi al nuovo millennio, sceglierei questo: l'agile salto improvviso del poeta-filosofo che si solleva sulla pesantezza del mondo, dimostrando che la sua gravità contiene il segreto della leggerezza, mentre quella che molti credono essere la vitalità dei tempi, rumorosa, aggressiva, scalpitante e rombante, appartiene al regno della morte, come un cimitero d'automobili arrugginite.

Cuántas veces Maddalena Strozzi cortó una rosa blanca y la sintió gemir entre sus dedos, retorcerse y gemir débilmente como una pequeña mandrágora o uno de esos lagartos que cantan como las liras cuando se les muestra un espejo.

If you let the alembic cool, metaphor becomes superstition.

I jump to my feet in this dream within a dream. Although I am quite dry, I discover that the trees of the forest in which I have slept stand rooted in water. Beyond them, at the forest's edge, stretches a tarn. From the steely face of the tarn rises a mist, and there, where the mist swirls thickest, shimmering like a pale column risen from its depths, dripping tarn water and rotted rose petals, stands Gunther.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Everything at times of transition takes on a symbolic weight and power. But this too is why he travels. The world you're moving through flows into another one inside, nothing stays divided any more, this stands for that, weather for mood, landscape for feeling, for every object there is a corresponding inner gesture, everything turns into metaphor. The border is a line on a map, but also drawn inside himself somewhere.

I see the world is flat and the map flat that records it, and both page and world speak each other forever. Put a fold in eternity and it is just as flat and wide. Take the map of the world and fold it into a boat and the boat becomes the world.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift.

I pledge allegiance to the flag, 'cause if I don't it's such a drag. Flags are red and white and blue. Why they are I have no clue.

Our beautiful and spacious skies, Mom and picnics, apple pies. Dig our amber waves of grain, Purple mountains, fruited plain. Broad stripes and bright stars, Super Bowls and fast cars. To the republic for which it stands, Now it's time to all join hands. "Star-spangled banners wave

I'm going to finger paint a picture of a tree falling in a forest and crushing a family of happy butterflies until they are dead

Cats were considered valuable in ancient Egypt, and they appear in ancient art showing that they were important.

Now personally I stand for the National Anthem. But that a man refusing to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner is a greater affront to your sense of American honor than a stacked roster of flag-waving hypocrites using Old Glory as a symbolic excuse to commit untold atrocities at home and abroad is probably a good sign that you've lost all reference.

Dali dreamed of Hitler as a white-skinned girl- impossibly pale, luminous and lifeless as the moon.

Unlike perfume, handbags are visible on the body, and--like Air Jordans for teenagers--give the wearer the chance to brandish the logo and publicly declare her status or aspiration.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

a politics based on cultural values and symbolism rather than bread-and-butter interests. When politics is waged on these grounds, elections are won by those who are most successful at "priming" our latent cultural and psychological markers, not those who best represent our economic interests.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art." —TWYLA THARP

alongside the chairs in which his executives, marketing mavens, and software jockeys take their places, Bezos includes one more chair that remains empty. It's there to remind those assembled who's really the most important person in the room: the customer.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.

Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.