Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
I really enjoy playing a sex symbol, but it's not something I feel in real life. I'm much more of a natural girl at home.
Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.
When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?
Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
Little symbols of love are like molten lava, there's something even hotter below the surface.
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion.
For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images to...
