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When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

— Jami Attenberg

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

— Anish Kapoor

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

— Susanne Langer

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

— Margot Asquith

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

— Marilyn Monroe

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.

— Rudolf Steiner

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

— Pamela Anderson

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

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

— Bill Russell

✗Opposing Perspectives

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

— Keith Haring