Quotes About Meaning

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

We had taken the cups for coffee out of the building as a cost-saving measure, but left the coffee. Somebody thought it was symbolic to do this.

To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

The 9/11 attack was symbolic. It was not designed to cripple us economically or militarily, at least not directly. It was designed to provoke a reaction.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

A lot of women wrote to me. Some wrote me long letters on the meaning of the circle and about mythology and about motherhood and the significance or the symbolism of the mermaid and the frogs and the turtles.

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.

The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts.

I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.