Quotes About Symbolism

Many fairy tales are symbolic statements about finding our male or female identity. When the developmental process is running smoothly, we eventually outgrow our inner child's literal understanding of these stories and come to grasp their symbolic significance. But

It takes lots of energy and hard work to live a false self. This may be the symbolic meaning of the Biblical statement that after the fall the man and the woman would suffer in their natural activities: the woman in childbirth, the man in his work.

It was as if cowslips and cow-droppings mingled with sea-horses and cowry-shells.

The reality is one thing; the name; with all is strange associations, is only an outward shell of such reality.

If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or the circular patterns on his shoes

Everytime I look at the keyboard, I see that U & I are always together.

I'll buy you 11 Roses; 10 real and 1 fake. And I'll love you until the last rose dies.

He'd seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?""Then what died? who are you mourning?""A point of view.

Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones.

The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death

Why is it that the beautiful things are entwined more deeply with death than with life?

In art and mythology, the Goddess appears in three forms. White represents the virgin, red the mother, and black, the crone, or the death-goddess.

The bell tolling not for us, it's time for bluebells.

And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.