Quotes About Symbolism

I don't think it's any accident that a slice of pie comes in the exact same shape as a slice of pussy

her own hand a candelabra of gold flame.

What's the best part about living in Switzerland? No idea, but the flag is a big plus!

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride?

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

All things transient are but a parable.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

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

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

Everything in life is a metaphor.

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

Life's true face is the skull.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

Music is our myth of the inner life.