The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.
I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.
We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.
When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain.
I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.
Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.
I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We’re all worshiping something.
The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.
Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable that the place will be used carelessly, and eventually destroyed. Without such knowledge and faithfulness, moreover, the culture of a country will be superficial and decorative, functional only insofar as it may be a symbol of prestige, the affectation of an elite or "in" group.
The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.
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