Top Symbolism Quotes Collection

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Image of Reuben Fine
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.
- Reuben Fine
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Image of Sir John Woodroffe
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.
- Sir John Woodroffe
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Image of The Weeknd
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.
- The Weeknd
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Image of Shirin Neshat
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.
- Shirin Neshat
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Image of B. W. Powe
It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
- B. W. Powe
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Image of Lori Earley
My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world.
- Lori Earley
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Image of Paul Emsley
I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.
- Paul Emsley
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Image of Hal Borland
In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.
- Hal Borland
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Image of Haruki Murakami
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.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Edward Albee
I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
- Edward Albee
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Sigmund Freud
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Carl Jung
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
- Carl Jung
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Image of Jesse Jackson
If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
- Jesse Jackson
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Image of Stephen King
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
- Stephen King
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Image of John McCain
Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.
- John McCain
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