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"In modern design, icons play a vital role in conveying both function and emotion."
"The making and use of religious icons and statues is biblical. Know your bible."
"They found a depiction of the Corn god of the Maya, the maize God."
"Taylor Swift's storytelling and iconography are unparalleled."
"I think it's kind of cool to have these icons like I'm kind of down for it."
"I think a lot of people may be expecting prices to have doubled but in reality they're pretty stable..."
"Symbols and iconography are even useful outside of actual gameplay and are a huge part of intuitive and efficient UI design."
"He's got more icons than I've had hot dinners, and that's quite impressive."
"My personal heroes... took names and they are just... they're just so iconic."
"Trump is the iconography of the latest embodiment of this fear."
"Icons are coming back and other people were saying that icons are coming back."
"If you look at the word audacity in the dictionary, we should have a picture of Robert E. Lee next to that."
"Brooklyn, known best for its iconic landmarks including the Brooklyn Bridge."
"Luke Skywalker against all the bad guys, summed up in one beautiful image."
"The king is the only one who has the Halo around his head."
"If Christ is the icon of the invisible God, we can continue making icons as well."
"Barbie is not a toy, she is a pop culture icon."
"What's more symbolic of Iron Man's unapologetic cockiness, intellectual superiority, and technological extravagance than Tony Stark's arsenal of battle armor?"
"Jesus' humanity is the iconic representation of the invisible God."
"The icon is both the way and the means; it is prayer itself."
"Our concept of God, Allah, is not the one on the Sistine Chapel."
"The apotheosis of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton with Hillary Clinton are accompanied by lesser elohim Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer portrayed as angels."
"Image worship becomes a powerful practice in realizing the divine in one's life."
"His image of Washington became our image of Washington, became the iconic image of Washington."
"You'll see an icon go away, I think this is the bottom line."
"I think one of the coolest things about Black Ivy, a Revolt in Style, the book, is being able to see all of these really famous and really noteworthy icons within the black community have their style broken down meticulously."
"Pam Grier quickly became a sex icon."
"That's an icon for gangster rap. He had an icon out here for us."
"If all it took was one trip through that green pipe to turn those nobody plumbers into cultural icons then what's stopping the two of them from doing the same?"
"Hogan would eventually pass the torch in a match with the Rock at WrestleMania 18... the passing of the torch moment between the two icons was presented perfectly."
"Drag queens, I think we're seeing as drag queens now, we are actual, like, icons, you know?"
"Although he's deliberately portrayed with the traditional iconography as a feminine looking youth, the character Jesus's side in da Vinci's Last Supper is John the Beloved and not Mary Magdalene."
"There's this whole class of art that emerges in late Antiquity of Paul and Peter as two, like, you know, little icons, like little head and they're always, like, snuggling together."
"An icon is an internal picture of the person that is invisible but a picture is that person externally visibly."
"The new flag bore a single eye-like shape with beams radiating out from its center."
"For some, even the patroness of Mexico, the Virgin of Guadalupe herself, can function as a protector of their illicit operations."
"The Obelisco is the icon of Buenos Aires."
"...images icons or statues of our lord mother mary or the saints."
"From then on Che's face has continually been used as a symbol of revolutionary struggle."
"Venerating an icon is not the same as having a painting on your office wall."
"The iconography of the old west wouldn't be what it is today without the fearsome figures and various folk heroes both celebrated and reviled over the course of the last 150 years of American history."
"Auerbach and his trademark victory cigar have become enduring images in American sports."
"If you thought the dragon iconography was already overlapping across the world, this is where it gets very juicy and almost intertextually inbred."
"She's in our churches and on our walls, in our chapels and in our windows, in our paintings and in our dreams."
"I think James Dean will live forever and I think that his image will be part of the iconography of this culture for as long as I'm living and maybe into other generations."
"Without that jumpsuit phase, I'm not sure we'd have the visible icon of Elvis."
"Profaning the iconography of other people's faiths is boring and adolescent."
"Icons don't become icons of their own will. They're like projections. Truth is in the eye of the beholder."
"Our stockman's image is so different from his counterpart in the United States, the cowboy, who Americans have immortalized in their own particular way, Hollywood style."
"The Christian veneration of images is respectful."
"A recognizable icon from one of the world's most iconic toy and media franchises."
"Iconography is a system of graphic images or symbols that are associated with a subject or an idea."
"I would argue that the nun is an icon of modern horror. There's nobody more iconic than the nun other than Annabelle from the same franchise."
"Science fiction describes a songwriter feeling rougher, the disco lizard presumably nursing a hangover at the hotel, creeped out by religious iconography he's seeing around him."
"...the pelican is shown like the phoenix with its wing spread, but this bird is not in flames; instead, it is shown to be pecking at its bleeding breast while being surrounded by three juvenile pelicans."
"The icon of the Last Judgement is actually an amazing synthesis of all iconography."
"What makes a classic a classic is it how iconic it is or is it about quality?"
"Sonic's an icon and he should be treated like one."
"It's definitely been one of rock and roll's biggest mystery images on any album cover."
"NFL stadiums are almost as iconic as the teams that play in them."
"Seeing the familiar four shape get created from these bits of iconography is truly beautiful."
"That's when a movie transcends storytelling; it becomes iconography."
"Numerous civilizations and empires continue to use them, for many becoming a religious icon."
"The icon... is certainly a work that takes time. You are meant to spend time following its lines, its contours."
"In other words, he made them popular icons, personalities for mass consumption."
"What's more rock and roll than a picture of a Marshall stack and a Les Paul?"
"The wooden effigy referred to fondly as 'the man' is recognized around the world as the icon of Burning Man."
"I am an artist, I'm an icon carver."
"The history of the image of the Buddha in Buddhism changes quite radically from the beginning of Buddhism up to where we live today."
"Everyone seems to agree that Font Awesome is one of the best icon fonts out there."
"The iconography of Nike slaying the bowl stretches back to ancient Greek Classical period."
"A well-designed icon system helps reinforce a company's visual identity and improve usability."
"What is branding? What is an iconography that works in Tokyo, that works in Chicago, that works in Paris, it works in London? Let me use that."
"It's an American icon dealing with darkness, going through a personal journey."
"An icon is a symbol representing a larger idea."
"Using Figma for the icon family has enabled deeper collaboration, teamwork, and systems thinking."
"Our goal at Font Awesome is to take the hassle out of using icons on your websites and your projects."
"Combining components and Boolean groups together means that with icon design, we have the ability to reuse elements across icons that share a similar base."
"The wonderful detail of the veil over the head of the Virgin, which is that same blue mantle but reversed, showing this darker blue-blackish color with gold polka dots."
"Hidden visions: iconography of alterity in Soviet bloc illustrations for Lord of the Rings."
"It is very powerful and that's why we should really keep to our iconographic tradition because it testifies for theology of our history."
"You should now notice that you have an Impa icon."
"Samurai cinema did the same thing for the ancient warriors, the genre has made samurai into larger than life figures."
"That shot of them powering up as one is very striking and has become iconic."
"That's awesome, we have the icon that we want to put there."
"It's kind of like a rock deity, you know, not a bad album cover."
"You build an icon, you're able to kind of keep it looking that way forever."
"He is depicted as a black canine, a jackal-dog hybrid with pointed ears, or as a muscular man with the head of a jackal."
"You remember the icon for the Royal Promenade neighborhood, it is the car, and there is that car, right there, supercharged with the teddy bear driver."
"The cultural perception of the monsters and the standardized iconography of the governing bodies dictate what these icons should convey and how."
"The believer who venerates the icon is venerating in it the person of the one depicted."
"The American Dream, Warhol sublime depiction of Marilyn Monroe, arguably one of the most iconic pictures of the 20th century."
"She might be an iconic image of a girl, but she's also a painting made of a combination of materials that we identified and analyzed at an elemental level."
"To millions, it is the true image of Christ."
"Holy icons are theological statements; they are theology in color."
"We're going to animate that so it turns into a closed icon when it is opened."
"The ten dead men have become Republican icons."
"From comic strips to big screens, few symbols are as instantly recognizable as Wonder Woman's red, white, and blue ensemble."
"Join me, your guide through the labyrinth of fame, as we unravel the intricacies of a modern-day icon."
"The making of an icon, how the Girl with a Pearl Earring gained its fame."
"Every good Batman needs a good Batmobile."
"The icon of the Pantocrator is the image of Christ as the ruler of all, as the judge of all."
"I love the aesthetic of the character and how it established the iconography of Dracula."
"The notion of the Deesis is one of the oldest images that we have in Christianity."
"The images on the Windows showed Jesus Christ in two scenes from the New Testament."
"Much of the iconographic corpus that we're going to be talking about today is figural, meaning that it shows both human and non-human figures engaged in various activities surrounded by indications of the world that they live in."
"The iconography does have a clear narrative style about it, important to the culture that created it."
"Rosie the Riveter symbolized a new notion of American beauty."
"The Devil's ubiquitous presence in popular culture means that damn near everybody could probably draw you a pretty spot-on version just from memory."
"UI image system name allows us to load one of the 1500 icons Apple provided with SF symbols."
"Superstardom is about iconography."
"The Ronnie Magruder Dwach Shima, a late work featuring one of the artist's iconic images, the apple."
"Beautiful imagery right there of The Fiend Bray Wyatt."
"He didn't become an actor, he became this icon instead."
"In 1953 there was so much Goodwill for Britain and for this feminine icon which is really what she was."
"The iconography of the Buddha now here is going to become quite well-developed."
"This is Krishna playing the flute, one of the most iconic images of Krishna and one of the ways in which you can identify the God."
"The definition of icon is open-ended, and you don't have to define what that truly means."
"Icons are no different than the words in the Bible; they're written."
"When the church becomes normalized and legalized, we do see the prevalence and profusion of iconography."
"Icons aren't idols. The Old Testament had iconography everywhere."
"Jesus is the icon of the Father... so iconography is based and rooted in human nature itself."
"The existence of those forgeries does not refute the genuine evidence you have in favor of iconography."
"These two are heroes, these two are icons, these two are legends."
"Icons provide visual clarity to quickly and effectively convey a message or idea without requiring written text."