Quotes About Symbolism

Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like gargoyles.

Assad: 'I have written it just down here.'He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have meant it was going to snow in the Lofoten Islands in the morning.

If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted.

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shot gun in the sky and they were turning into butterflies above our nation.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

What is love? In English, a language; In Math, a problem; In History, a war; In Geography, a mountain; In Chemistry, a reaction and in a painting, a heart.

A young man named for a god of fucking rode his palomino next to my dun.

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

The Artwork as Misunderstanding There is a crisis with regard to Representation. They are looking for Meaning as if it was a thing. As if it was a girl, required to take her panties off as if she would want to do so, as soon as the true interpreter comes along. As if there was something to take off.

My paintings are not the executions of one idea or emotion that goes from (a) intention to (b) artwork. (Our notions of cause and effect are also in bad shape.) Drawings are closer and quicker in conveying immediate feelings. The more you move towards paintings, the darker the wood becomes through which Little Red Riding Hood goes, and it's not only the wolf but also the wicked with and the seven dwarfs, Judas and Jesus and the journalists, whom she has to face.

a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

Every negro walk in a circle. Take that and make of it what you will. A circle like the sun, a circle like the moon, a circle like bad tidings that seem gone but always, always come back.

That's what happens when your personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.

When dog kill puss, and puss kill dog, the only one happy is the john-crow. And the john-crow been waiting for this all it life. The vulture with him red head and white feather chest and black wings.

The fishes had the head, arms, and breasts of women.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Susanna, who is superstitious, has put a piece of rowan wood in the pocket of her black dress to guard against ghosts