#symbol

Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#becoming #complexity #constructed #day-to-day #democracy

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. ↗

— Walt Disney

#independence #me #means #mickey #mickey mouse

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#aisle #approach #clock #figures #hour

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion. ↗

— Origen

#became #been #clearly #fathers #him

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism. ↗

— Franka Potente

#because #building #care #country #director

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

#art #attempting #beyond #cannot #canyon

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.' ↗

— Pat Robertson

#been #god #great #great nation #look

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#bother #me #sex #sex symbol #symbol

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#object #revolutionary #same #seed #symbol

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos. ↗

— Rollo May

#existentialism #myth #symbol #art