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Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.
It's always intimidating to meet an icon.
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
All things are symbols.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.
Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.
[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.
If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.
I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.
Know what a symbol is? ... Shit that stands for shit.
I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.
iconoclastically.
Frequently these loaded images or objects are used by me without my attaching a particular significance to them. In other words, what I'm doing is letting whatever power, whatever affect they have, work on its own.
I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.
Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.
If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.
When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery.
Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.
Figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.
An icon didn't do anything of its own volition. A symbol didn't act of its own accord. Both cities projected what they wanted onto me, and wanted me to stay still as they did it.
I am the showstopper. The main event. The Icon that can still go.
I like all the old-fashioned icons. My friends are artists, so they make me up to look like certain people. I am more inspired by people like Jane Fonda or Brigitte Bardot - people who did something as activists.
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.
Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.
I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
... consider the meaning of these images. Every time you're working with them, ask yourself: what do they mean? And, even more important, what do they mean to me? The more specific and personal something is, the more its universality emerges.
Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.
Eros guides us to Logos.
The strongest logos tell simple stories.
The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?
Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.
They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.
Cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.
No symbols where none intended.
Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images,
Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.
Things are symbols of themselves.
Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony ... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.
The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal.
What good are images if people understand them?
Stars entertain us. Icons do something much more. They embody us. They tell us something about who we are and who we want to be. They are both a mirror and a shaping force.
You couldn't see the soldiers as people. They were icons.
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
Forget horror icon, Kety Bates is an icon. She's an acting icon. I was raised on so many of her films, everything from Misery to Fried Green Tomatoes to Delores Claiborne, all films that I've watched multiple times and been inspired by.
When something is iconic, if you're very careful and delicate, you can add onto that iconography. It can expand. People have attached so much to it themselves, and connected to it, so the risks are big, but the potential is enormous, at the same time.
You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's translated to the small, you know, kind of icons on your computer. You name it.
My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
The great style icons are tomboys
They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment
They are thought pictures -- the outstanding headlands of the meandering shores of life, and are points to steer by on the broad sea of thought and experience. They body forth in living forms and colors the ever varying lights and shadows of the soul.
A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.
The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons and there they participate in rituals which transmute life itself to a series of grand gestures, as moving as they are absurd.
There are no more simple images ... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images ...
The image is an image.
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.
My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot.
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
It is war now, and armies need symbols.
Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.
But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.
The lives of the poor are rich in symbols.
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent.
Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.
If it's just a symbol, then
to hell with it !
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
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Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.
Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.
Iris GL (GL is short for "graphics library").
The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It's my fault. But I shouldn't have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.
I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.
The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.
When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.
Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.
The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing.
Fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.
In this sorry world, the symbol is the thing.
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols ... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.
They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.
I believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system.
Give yourself to the images which are, in fact, already there.
The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more likely to be a complex of symbols that have a profound meaning for the artists themselves.
Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.
As we transform ourselves into creatures of the screen, we face an existential question: Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.
Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
I am a symbol of my soul.