#symbol

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#after #also #art #language #only

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth. ↗

— Henry Reed

#earth #explain #first #knew #life

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#failure #guns #human #rockets #symbols

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#although #blurred #clear #colour #could

But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#end #going #grow #had #i

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#entrepreneurial #exclusion #first #hitler #israel

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God. ↗

— Anya Seton

#many #may #reaches #soul #symbols