Quotes by Symbolism No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. Edward Sapir symbolism important world All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. Edwin Powell Hubble symbolism nature spiritual 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. Eric Temple Bell engineering symbolism trying [Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep. Erich Fromm symbolism dream sleep The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. Frank X. Barron symbolism creative home Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person. Frank X. Barron symbolism home average I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism. Franka Potente symbolism kings country Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability. Franz Grillparzer symbolism want love Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations. Gao Xingjian distance symbolism white When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. Gene Tierney symbolism important easy I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. George Edward Woodberry hidden-meaning deals symbolism I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them. Georgia O'Keeffe symbolism new-york thinking Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think. Grant Morrison language symbolism thinking Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics. Gloria Steinem symbolism children ideas 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 happiness-and-love apples symbolism 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. Hassan Blasim symbolism writing people God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul. Henry Ward Beecher symbolism god men 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 metaphor symbolism danger 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. Jean Cocteau able symbolism art If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance. Jesse Jackson vote substance symbolism «12345»