Words matter. These are the best Allegory Quotes from famous people such as Charles Baudelaire, Juan Antonio Bayona, Justin Cartwright, Amos Oz, Boots Riley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Everything for me becomes allegory.
The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.
The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is an astonishing building, designed by Christopher Wren. Its painted ceiling has just been restored so that the darkish miasma that was Robert Streeter’s original allegory of truth and light striking the university is now bright with playful cherubs and lustrous clouds.
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
If you tell a story that’s only allegory, then it doesn’t help you at all. If it doesn’t bring some emotional charge, then it’s just talking about something.
I can work in films as long as the story doesn’t have a realistic nature. If I’m working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
There’s so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that’s why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.
I don’t like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don’t see anybody who’s using it as allegory.
I think the best science fiction, especially literature, is political in nature and is often an allegory about something problematic in our world, and it’s something that makes the ‘X-Men’ comics so relevant – they’re about xenophobia and prejudice.
No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman.
I like to use horror as allegory.
Since my first encounter with Kafka’s writing, I’ve been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
I don’t like allegory.
