If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. Votes: 4
Herbert ReadIt is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being. Votes: 4
Thomas CarlyleSymbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world. Votes: 3
Gertrud von Le FortSymbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities. Votes: 3
Saint AugustineSymbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities. Votes: 3
Francois HollandeSymbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers. Votes: 3
Dion FortuneI'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas. Votes: 2
Peter ZumthorLove wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability. Votes: 0
Franz GrillparzerEconomists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. Votes: 0
Al NicholThe arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas. Votes: 0
David HilbertThe key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWhen people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. Votes: 0
Georgia O'KeeffeBehold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness. Votes: 0
Sun RaThe Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words. Votes: 0
Patrick O'BrianThe guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. Votes: 0
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. Votes: 0
John SteinbeckHe didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning ... Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareWords are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. Votes: 0
Iris MurdochFor women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaMusic and symbols, they're older than human race.Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind. Votes: 0
Toba BetaThe grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisLiterature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life. Votes: 0
Marcel TherouxA language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates. Votes: 0
Bernard BlochPerhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls. Votes: 0
Jamie DornanLanguage, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. Votes: 0
George Henry LewesIt is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeThings admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols. Votes: 0
Charles JencksThe function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. Votes: 0
Joseph Campbell