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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.
Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.
The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.
We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.
The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa.
Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
Those clouds above formed a pattern that looked familiar. Black on white, white on black.
It's the symbol, she realized with a start. The ancient symbol of the Aes Sedai.
Under this sign ... shall he conquer.
Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times' ... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.
Things are symbols of themselves.
Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.
We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.
The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
With the manipulation of abstract
symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,
sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.
Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater;
Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
These are icons to be treasured.
Just look up any symbol, and you'll find that the meanings behind that symbol are revealed in a manner you can actually apply to the situations that are affecting your life- and the choices that are available to you right now!
In this I conformed to my usual manner of thinking in symbols; this because the things of the invisible world attract me more than those of actual life
Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.
icon, if you could even call it an icon, seemed to be
When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
I symbolized doping ... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.
Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.
Color
Wear it
Like a banner
For the proud
Not like a shroud.
Wear it
Like a song
Soaring high
Not moan or cry.
Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.
Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.
Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines towards: the making of signs to look through rather than at.
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
I jumped into a crowd full of "u"s they turned into underscores. Hit the pavement hard." visualization words
Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius.
Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.
The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.
It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting. There may be a time when this symbol means something treacherous and terrible, rather than something noble and literate.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.
It is this process of symbolization which, in certain hasheesh states, gives every tree and house, every pebble and leaf, every footprint, feature, and gesture, a significance beyond mere matter or form, which possesses an inconceivable force of tortures or of happiness.
Write visually or die!
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry
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.
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
The symbol of the revolution. The Mockingjay.
A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.
Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.
A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.
Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
I'm proud to be a symbol like the army knife or the mountains.
To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.
The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.
that his gesture was symbolic, as Serena said. But symbolic of
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
127 How do you express your creativity?
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
The initiate, however, uses a symbol-system differently; he uses it as an algebra by means of which he will read the secrets of unknown potencies; in other words, he uses the symbol as a means of guiding thought out into the Unseen and Incomprehensible.
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.
We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.
When meter is honored over thythm, line over syntax, form over structure, even the most prodigious manipulation of traditional patterns may be rendered purely decorative.
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.
And highlighted with bold streaks
iconoclastically.
For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.
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With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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.
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
Creative"
"Dangerously emo.
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.
A religious symbol conveys its message even if it is no longer consciously understood in every part. For a symbol speaks to the whole human being and not only to the intelligence.
To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.
... while men and women perished, and cities fell, symbols endured, grew. Symbols were immortal.
Symbolic forms have always been the supports of civilizations, their laws, and their morality. Since symbolic forms are illusions, and illusions sustain civilization, those who rule must maintain illusion.
However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.
Clothes are incredibly symbolic.
All religious expression is symbolism.
There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.