Symbols Quotes

• 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.

  

  Morris Graves
  • Reality
  • Paint
  • Symbols

• Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Clothes
  • Symbols

• Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Past
  • Experiences

• With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Change
  • Destroy
  • Symbols

• All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Happens
  • Expression
  • Dignity

• As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.

  

  Raquel Welch
  • Sexuality
  • Males
  • Symbols

• An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Dreams
  • Symbols

• Algebra is a general Method of Computation by certain signs and symbols which have been contrived for the Purpose, and found convenient.

  

  Colin Maclaurin
  • Symbols
  • Algebra
  • Computation

• It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Being
  • Works
  • Symbols

• Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

  

  Manly Hall
  • World
  • Symbols
  • Forms

• Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • May
  • Simple
  • Language

• As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Nerves
  • Sensations
  • Respecting

• As long as there are armies, there will be a war. I don’t care about symbols.

  

  Jeff Shaara
  • War
  • Symbols
  • Armies

• As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes you sexy if you like.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • Thinking
  • Symbols

• The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Faith
  • Soil
  • Covering

• Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Symbols
  • Planes
  • Prophetic

• 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.

  

  Claude Cahun
  • Reality
  • Effort
  • Letters

• 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.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Ideas
  • Situation
  • Understood

• The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for a new and fresh approach to lettering in the part of the designer. In these logotypes the combination of letters can be more or less obvious; but only deliberately contrived encounters of elements and confrontations of values can lead beyond the letters to new forms of expression.

  

  Armin Hofmann
  • Designer
  • Lettering
  • Logotypes

• The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.

  

  Christian Metz
  • Silence
  • Photography
  • Authority

• As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

  

  Bob Higgins
  • Built
  • Churches
  • Saloons

• There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Universe
  • Dreams

• Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

  

  Raquel Welch
  • Symbols
  • Convicts

• In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Man
  • Hatred
  • In Love

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