Quotes About Symbolism

hundreds of decorated automobiles and elaborate floats, one featuring a roaring lion, declawed for the occasion but symbolizing the fierce determined spirit of the city, was turned out for two hundred and fifty thousand gasping Angelenos thronged in the streets to marvel at in wondrous civic pride.

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

Tattoos are interesting, but at the same time they are also a mask - you are exhibiting your past life on your body.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

The color red is associated with romance and blood, but not at the same time.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

The rose I gave you was an emblem of my heart,' said she; 'would you take it away and leave me here alone?' 'Would you give me your hand too, if I asked it?' 'Have I not said enough?

you begin to notice all the props surrounding these people, and you begin to understand how props define us and comfort us, and show us what we value and what we need, and who we think we are.

Perhaps we painted on our own skin, with ochre and charcoal, long before we painted on stone.

We made our paints from the bones of the animals we painted. No image forgets this origin.

Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.

If I'm an angel, paint me with black wings.

Si soy un ángel, píntame con alas negras.

I vowed that every time I came to them I would light one hundred candles. It would be a small proof of my undying love.

when I hear people say "Six Flags," my mind fills in "Over Texas" and I have to resist the temptation to explain why "Six Flags." The six flags refer to the six flags of the countries that flew over Texas in history: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States, and the Confederate States of America.

White blossomed magnolias and cheery songbirds avoided the Red District of Hallden, as had prosperity and hope.

he must cook and eat the child.

Tiffany's blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and "price is no object.

As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities through the objects that tie them to it. The demand for restitution is a way to reclaim history, to assert a moral imperative over those who were once overlords. Those countries still in the shadow of more powerful empires seek to claim the symbols of antiquity and colonialism to burnish their own national mythmaking.

flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother's crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of the injustices perpetrated by the former imperial power. Until it is returned—at least as a symbolic gesture of expiation—it will remain evidence of the loot, plunder and misappropriation that colonialism was really all about. Perhaps that is the best argument for leaving the Kohinoor where it emphatically does not belong—in British hands.