Quotes about Icon
When I think of a hit, I think of Madonna.
— Mark Lanegan
Frank Sinatra will go on forever.
— Frank Sinatra Jr.
An icon is like a window looking out upon eternity. Behind its two dimensional surface lies the garden of God, which is beyond dimension or size. Every time I entrust myself to these images, move beyond my curious questions about their origin, history, and artistic value, and let them speak to me in their own language, they draw me into closer communion with the God of love.
— Henri Nouwen
The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter feels, Jesus of Nazareth did not walk around Galilee faceless. The icon of Jesus may not look like the man Jesus two thousand years ago, but it represents some *quality* of Jesus, or his mother, or his followers, and so becomes an open window through which we can be given a new glimpse of the love of God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
An icon is not meant to be an idol. Just a reminder that love is greater than hate.
— Madeleine L'Engle
My dream collaboration would be Elvis.
— Chord Overstreet
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
depiction of God in The Trinity seriously, we have to say, "In the beginning was the Relationship." This icon yields more fruits the more you gaze on it. Every part of it was obviously meditated on with great care: the gaze between the Three; the deep respect between them as they all share from a common bowl. And note the hand of the Spirit pointing toward the open and fourth place at the table! Is the Holy Spirit inviting, offering, and clearing space? If so, for what?
— Fr. Richard Rohr
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
— John Oates
Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.
— Ronald Reagan
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
— CS Lewis