Quotes about Symbolism

Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death.

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Thus He did at a marriage feast what He would not do in a desert; He worked in the full gaze of men what He had refused to do before Satan. Satan asked Him to turn stones into bread in order that He might become an economic Messias; His mother asked Him to change water into wine that He might become a Savior.

Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people, hunters in the fall killing the deer, that is Christ also. And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life. Canned Spam, canned Jesus, even the plants must be Christ.

I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the surface, but inside.

Laura was flint in a nest of thistledown. I say flint, not stone: a flint has a heart of fire.

Canada is built on dead beavers.

Tiffany's blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and "price is no object.

We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.