Quotes and Sayings About Symbolism
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
-- A. E. WaiteSource : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.
-- Al Gore -
Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.
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Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.
-- Anton EhrenzweigSource : "Subliminal Ad-ventures in Erotic Art" by Wilson Bryan Key, Branden Books, (p. 37), 1992.
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
-- B. W. PoweSource : "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.
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I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.
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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
-- Christopher Lasch -
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.
-- David Icke -
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I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
-- Edward Albee -
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.
-- Edward SapirSource : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter
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All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
-- Edwin Powell Hubble -
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
-- EnyaSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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.
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Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.
-- Frank X. Barron -
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
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I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.
-- Franka PotenteSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty.____ This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.
-- Gao XingjianSource : "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1989.
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The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan. Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder.
-- Gary North -
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
-- Gene TierneySource : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
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I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
-- George Edward Woodberry -
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Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.
-- Grant Morrison -
In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.
-- Hal Borland -
If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
-- Jesse Jackson -
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.
-- John Schlesinger -
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Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.
-- Kevin Martin -
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world.
-- Lori EarleySource : Artist Statement, www.loriearley.com.