#symbolic

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

— Anish Kapoor

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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

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #capture #dimension #experience #grasp

I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#behind #else #fascist #had #i

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

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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. ↗

— Nate Silver

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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#am #become #china #critical #dangerous

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#every #everything #expression #gesture #senses

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

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In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

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