Quotes About Symbolism

She went like that saint who, although she still has her head on her shoulders, is carrying it in her hands, as if it had already been cut off.

Ahora la aterraba y la hacía sufrir la gruesa alianza que le brillaba en el anular. Incrédula, hizo un repaso de aquel día: la iglesia, el oficio religioso, la fiesta. Qué he hecho, pensó aturdida por el vino, qué es esta argolla de oro, este cero brillante dentro del que he metido el dedo.

The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

For dinner she made a soup called "boy-catching soup" and a cake called "mother-in-law cake." These two dishes seemed to sum up a whole worldview of entrapment and placation.

what was "Cinderella," if not an allegory for the fundamental unhappiness of shoe shopping?—

Justice, contrary to public belief, is not blind. Love is blind, but Justice? Look at any statue, at any depiction. She is blindfolded.

Next to that dragon Micha had wirtten: 'KIS EacH OthER'. Abel looked at Anna. Anna looked at Abel. 'She is the little queen,' said Abel, 'in our fairy tale, at least.' 'One must obey the queen,' said Anna.

To these women, the veil constitutes an extremely important part of the idea of 'getting dressed', whereas in the West the veil represents a symbol of male dominance..

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.

Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.

Los hermoso del símbolo nunca es estar, sino sobrevenir. (Autocrítica, en "Los verde campos del Eden").

A groom should buy three batons on his wedding day and give one each to wife, mother and mother-in-law on the next day of his marriage.

Citizen Kane is to cinema what James Joyce's Ulysses is to literature.

A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.

Huset der oppe, sa jeg og pekte – er dødens hus, Arnardo.

Cherry blossoms are more beautiful when the blood of the dead stains the flowers from grass below.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.

One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.