#symbol

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#completely #context #enterprise #future #go

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#art #fact #interior #life #only

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. ↗

— Tommy Douglas

#being #buildings #i #mind #monument

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol. ↗

— John Forsythe

#advanced age #age #amusing #become #rather

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality. ↗

— Morris Graves

#changing #direct #evoke #i #language

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#american #american spirit #ball #baseball #bat

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you. ↗

— Richard Hatch

#buying #colors #designs #dollars #feel

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#christian religion #even #few #hidden #meaning

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#carrying #civilisation #disease #disintegration #forbidden

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! ↗

— David Kirk

#actions #comes #donkey #elements #entrance