Symbolism Quotes

Symbolism Quote of the day

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

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

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

All religious expression is symbolism.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot of conscious use of mathematical symbolism and numbers in order to try and give messages.

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in the sand in Darfur to show a massacre.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.