Top 160 Symbolism Quotes & Sayings

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

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don't give a damn about my future, I won't either.

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

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

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

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

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

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

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

Studio D has a lot of symbolism for me.

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.

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 think the Reagan people are superb marketers. Their whole approach to polling, to television, to the symbolism and the rest approaches genius.

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

I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.

The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

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

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

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.

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

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

The symbolism of certain foods trip the nostalgic wire in all of us, whether the context is cultural heritage or geographic location.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart

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 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.

I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

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

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

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

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in My Books?" If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story.... But I think you are making all of this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it.

One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.

All religious expression is symbolism.

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

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

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.

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

I find the English flag - the cross - quite frightening; it has very bad symbolism for me. Not just football hooligans but supremacists and the BNP.

I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as an atheist.

The true symbolism of every facet of 'Guernica' can only be guessed at, but we do know that it haunted Picasso.

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

I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so that you [Darn] Well Know There's A Symbol Here.

[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted himself. The symbolism was in - and this sounds really, really small, but it's actually big for African-Americans - the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.

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

I usually don't 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.

The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

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