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.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

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

I'm not alone I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.