#symbol

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#feel #i #i feel #problem #symbolic

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#almost #deeper #eat #every #food

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#confederate #flag #high #high seas #long

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#construct #destruction #efforts #human #noblest

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier? ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#become #come #comes #could #done

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future. ↗

— Hosni Mubarak

#being #better #better future #calling #change

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#biological #chief #city #convert #creativity

I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that. ↗

— Kim Novak

#because #expectations #free #get #helpful

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. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#despise #even #father #faults #german

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#christ #contradiction #extraordinary #figure #i