Quotes About Symbolism

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation.

The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.

If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic, very theatrical. The outfits they wear, it's all designed to be impressive.

I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

A syllabary is a system in which each syllable of the language is represented by its own sign.

the four characters: ti-ri-po-de, meaning 'two tripods'.)

El teléfono celular es un amuleto portátil como los que producían efectos curativos en tiempos antiguos, dotado de un inmenso poder simbólico.

By the pond, an old yew tree had grown against a millstone, like a finger swelling round a wedding ring.

Mustapha then had some of the bodies of the knights and a Maltese priest—"some mutilated, some without heads, some with their bellies ripped open"—dressed in their distinctive red-and-white surcoats and nailed to wooden crosses in parody of the crucifixion. The bodies were launched into the water off Saint Elmo's point, where the current washed them across to Birgu.

Visualisation accompanying or followed by movement can be an expression of the heart. The client may feel able to show through movement what he or she cannot say in words. Movement can include dance, which can symbolise deep feelings. Dance has many different forms, giving the client varied avenues for expression. This can help clients gain insight into themselves.

If you have to ask what it symbolizes, it didn't.

You can overintellectualize these Greek letters," Pflug reflected, referring to the alphas, betas, and gammas in the option trader's argot. "One Greek word that ought to be in there is hubris.

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

There is something about a literary work- its vision, its transparence, its metaphoric quality- that makes it very strong magic.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

If you wish to understand the psychological and spiritual temper of any historical period, you can do no better than to look long and searchingly at its art. For in the art the underlying spiritual meaning of the period is expressed directly in symbols.

Figuratively speaking, it is the specter of death they are trying to appease—death as the symbol of ultimate separation, aloneness, isolation from other human beings.

The opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy.

Be there a picnic for the devil, an orgy for the satyr, and a wedding for the bride.

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.