I have always seen the triangle as a symbol of thought and ambition, and I found these elements in Roger’s texts. So then I made a prism out of it because I thought it belonged to the soul of the Floyd”.
Let’s move on to the meaning of the symbol. The entire album is full of meanings, and every single track is to be carefully analyzed and put into a single context. In the meantime, limiting ourselves to the cover, we can explain its meaning in this way: in the front part of the cover, we find, in fact, a prism, on a black background, which illuminated from the left by a light white light, releases on the right a beam of colors, the same of the rainbow. We try to analyze every single part: the white light coming from the left symbolizes life, which illuminates and becomes part of the individual (the prism), which in turn “expels” it in the form of ideas, his ideas, his actions, different (of different colors) but still coming from the same individual. The back of the cover, perhaps the least famous, serves to give a conclusion to the whole: the beam of colors (therefore of ideas) continues and ends in an inverted prism (therefore it returns to the individual) and flows into the shaft of white light on the opposite side, creating a sort of continuity of the mechanism. #pinkfloyd