Symbolist Quotes

#1. I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams

#2. We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really copied Bob Dylan when I was younger: a little bit of Bob Dylan or a lot of Bob Dylan and the French symbolist poets - I liked how they dressed - and Catholic school boys.

Patti Smith

#3. Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.

Constant Lambert

#4. Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.

Seth Meyers

#5. Learning to appreciate those things that aren't related to success has proved the biggest lesson.

Chet Faker

#6. I'll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more.

Tony Wilson

#7. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Denise Levertov

#8. The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.

Elisabeth Elliot

#9. Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.

Alan Huffman

#10. I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.

Rafael Palmeiro

#11. Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.

Paulo Coelho

#12. I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin.

Scott Wolf