Quotes About Symbolism

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.

how and in what ways, do various cultures show off their flags? In contrast to Swedes, who almost never display their national colors, Norwegians and Canadians generally sport a flag decal on their backpacks, the latter making sure the rest of the world doesn't mistake them for Americans.)

the Apple logo hangs from an unseen thread in many Apple Stores like a Bethlehem star?

I'm like a ripe stool, and the world's like a gigantic anus, and so we're about to let go of each other.

In the republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes to grab a poem fluttering from the sky, blinded by weeping.

There is rebirth and an image of rebirth, and it is by means of this image that one must be reborn. What image is this? It is resurrection. Image must arise through image.

This is what is truly worthy and mighty, and we shall enter through symbols that are weak and insignificant. They are weak compared to perfect glory.

if they are bearded, they are after 117 CE. This

Nonetheless, whatever mystery surrounds them, the Olmec have left us a powerful in-your-face reminder that across the world, when people first made art they made it about themselves. From the very beginning art has been about us.

The Latin word for 'rams', rostra, became the name of the platform and gave modern English its word 'rostrum'.

That was the thing about signs, they were open for interpretation. Meaning was in the eye of the beholder.

Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

The rose is a flower of love. The world has acclaimed it for centuries. Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant. White roses are for love dead or forsaken, but the red roses, ah the red roses are for love triumphant.

Its not that I want to get married. I admire guys who can commit to a tattoo.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Did you know that when people appear in your dreams, it's because that person wants to see you?

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says : "I'm cheap!

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle

All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.