Definition of Symbolism

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Symbolism

The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms.

A system of symbols or representations.

The practice of using symbols, or the system of notation developed thereby.

A combining together of parts or ingredients.

The science of creeds; symbolics.

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Symbolism Quotations

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Arthur C. Clarke

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
Lascelles Abercrombie

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
Enya

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
Kenzo Tange

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
Gene Tierney

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.
Christopher Lasch

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.
Edward Sapir

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
Aaron Eckhart

What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
James T. Walsh

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.
Andrew Eldritch

Symbolism Translations

symbolism in German is Symbolik
symbolism in Spanish is simbolismo

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