Symbolism

Symbolism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

20 thinkers459 quotesTop field: Art

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."

Rainer Maria Rilke· b. 1875View quote →

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"Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

"Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul."

"Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work."

"In his later works Doesburg tried to destroy static expression by diagonal position of his lines. But in this way the feeling of physic equilibrium which is necessary to enjoy a work of art is lost."

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

"The only place in London where one can forget that it is Sunday."

"The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most."

"Innocence has its instincts, its needs, its physiological dues."

"My sculpture is altogether different from Rodin’s.. ..In sculpture he always sees the flesh first."

"Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate."

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🇬🇧Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Art

Symbolism

1828–1882

"The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti"

"The reader collaborates with the author in every book", or "The reader is co-author in every book"

"Elevate the soul by grandiose images beyond all everyday pettiness."

"O, my Russia! O, wife! The long road is clear to us to the point of pain. Our road – like a Tatar arrow of ancient will has pierced our breast."

"The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste."

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George Frederick Watts

Art

Symbolism

1817–1904

"BBC Restoration Appeal for the Watts Gallery"

"I think there can be few examples of a life as dilapidated as mine."

"I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel."

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"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875View →

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875View →

"For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875View →

"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, b. 1875View →

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

— Kahlil Gibran, b. 1922View →

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