Quotes About Symbolism

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.

I recognize the lion by his paw.

'Lauv' comes from the Latvian word for lion, and my mom's side of the family is from Latvia - it's a place I've been probably 15 times or more. I'm also a Leo, and my real name, Ari, means lion.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

Movies are too literal.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

To give a tangerine is a Chinese New Year's Tradition. Stems are left on to keep friendship intact.

Joshua Tree was named by Mormon pioneers- The arms looked like Joshua beckoning them to the promised land.

I like this little animal so much, and since my new name is Pawe? [Paul], I think his should be Piotr [Peter]. Then we can be two disciples!

The grasp of objects that bind us to some betokening.

Some people don't believe in God but they color eggs at Easter just to change the pattern of their days.

If Greek and Latin characters are paving stones, Arabic is rain.

A word is also a picture of a word.

The ruins stood above the hissing traffic like some monument to doomed expectations.

In the Times every morning, wasn't it a fact that the obits and the ad column tended to appear on facing pages?

It is interesting to think of the great blaze of heaven that we winnow down to animal shapes and kitchen tools.

During the golden age of the Most Serene Republic, the Doge used to perform an elaborate yearly ceremony, tossing a gold ring into the waters of the Grand Canal to solemnize the wedding of the city to the waters that gave it life, wealth, and power.

He looked at his wedding ring, twirled it around once or twice with his thumb. What pleasure it gave him to touch it, as though it were some sort of cult object, invested with magic powers, always near at hand, like a friendly spirit.

transubstantiation

Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life—a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the painter is giving you a secret message. He's telling you that living things don't last—it's all temporary. Death in life. That's why they're called natures mortes. Maybe you don't see it at first with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer—there it is

The fig tree without fruit is symbolic, in my opinion, of the nation Israel. The owner of the fig tree expected it to bear fruit and was disappointed when it was barren. He had the unquestioned right to take the fruit and to act in judgment by cutting down the tree. Israel had been promised blessings if they walked in the light God had given them and curses if they rejected the light.