Symbol Quotes - page 2

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste. (Marc Chagall)
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. View quote
Christopher Lasch
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
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. View quote
Carol P. Christ
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles. View quote
Carol P. Christ
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie. View quote
Veronica Lake
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason. View quote
Fidel Castro
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope and anarchy. (Jean-Louis Gassée)
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. View quote
George Eliot
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly mediocre, and even less than mediocre. That is to say, modern science, the root and symbol of our actual civilization, finds a place for the intellectually commonplace man and allows him to work therein with success. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet. View quote
Joseph Beuys
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses. View quote
Julio Cortázar
The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol twisted aside, and the lie come to be. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without. View quote
Ramakrishna
There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it. (E. M. Forster)
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape. View quote
Barbara Hepworth
How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution. View quote
Sanjaya Malakar
Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol. View quote
Mark Tobey