Quotes About Symbolism

o charuto é um verdadeiro Memento homo: convertendo-se pouco a pouco em cinzas, vai lembrando ao homem o fim real e infalível de todas as coisas: é o aviso filosófico, é a sentença fúnebre que nos acompanha em toda a parte (Linha reta e linha curva)

An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine—Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow

The slow darkening of the murals as you look from right to left. It seems somehow to symbolise the gradual imposition of the Spaniards' conquering will upon the Indians. Do you see what I mean?

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

For a long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, 'This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions.' And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English.

I was born in the year of the Tiger. It was a very bad year to be born, a very good year to be a Tiger.

I never saw as clearly as with Artaud what the meaning of poetry is: it is an abstraction, to match allegorical patterns.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

The traditional arts and crafts are, in fact, "mysteries," with "secrets" that are not merely "tricks of the trade" of economic value (like the so-much-abused European "patents"), but pertain to the worldwide and immemorial symbolism of the techniques, all of which are analogies or imitations of the creative nature in operation

You see, the great weakness of the symbolist school is that it brought nothing but an æsthetic with it; all the other great schools brought with them, besides their new styles, a new ethic, new tables, a new way of looking at things, of understanding love, of behaving oneself in life. As for the symbolist, it's perfectly simple; he didn't behave himself at all in life; he didn't attempt to understand it; he denied its existence; he turned his back on it.

The symbols of terror are commonplace and utterly familiar: the gun, the knife, the bomb, the fist, and so on. Even more significant is the hidden symbol of terror, the penis.

There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects so you have something to point to when you want to make it real.

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

I want to underline my own belief that art must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition to it—otherwise life would become impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

But now, since you are set among Knights of heavenly adventures, if you were worsted at that tournament it is no marvel. For the tournament was meant for a sign, and the earthly Knights were they who were clothed in black in token of the sins of which they were not yet purged.

A pigeon is the same thing as a dove, did you know that? Bridget

even wore something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

Why look'st thou so?'— With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS.

Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

Everything in your dream means exactly what you think it means.

One Crow for sorrow, Two Crows for mirth, Three Crows for a wedding, Four Crows for a birth, Five Crows for silver, Six Crows for gold, Seven for a secret, never to be told.

From the most distant prehistory, masked dancing and dramatic art have woven the fabric of group life. Declaiming and performing myths was a way of reinforcing a common worldview, bringing it to embodied life, imprinting it in members' subconscious. That is what the anarchists were doing.

And all that pink. It's like a giant vagina in there