Top 11 Iconography Quotes

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Iconography, Maps, Geography

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

Polly Toynbee

Art, Knowing, Iconography

"This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

Anish Kapoor

Spiritual, Space, Iconography

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

Mariko Mori

Past, Order, Iconography

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

Quentin Tarantino

War, Trying, Iconography

"The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. February 11, 2010.

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

George Sarton

Thinking, Iconography, Fruit

George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.13, Courier Corporation

Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.

Stephen Marche

Men, Iconography, Want

Source: www.macleans.ca

When something is iconic, if you're very careful and delicate, you can add onto that iconography. It can expand. People have attached so much to it themselves, and connected to it, so the risks are big, but the potential is enormous, at the same time.

Hugh Dancy

People, Risk, Iconography

Source: collider.com

People have a very proprietary relationship with Superman. It's important to respect the iconography and the canon, but at the same time, you have to tell a story.

Zack Snyder

People, Important, Iconography

Source: collider.com

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

James Wolcott

Men, Mad, Iconography

"Prime Time’s Graduation" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

We were all inspired by him as an actor and his iconography and thought, if we get somebody like Laurence Fishburne, we can tell a much more sophisticated, complicated version of Jack Crawford than we'd seen before as this large and in-charge and in-control guy, who is unflappable.

Bryan Fuller

Guy, Iconography, Actors

"Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.