A brick, block, stone, or other building component can represent a resource used to create or build. More specifically, it could represent:
- Strength, solidness, reliability, or rigidity
- An input for to a creative process, such as ideas, designs, information
- A catalyst a creative process, such as resourcefulness or talent
- A supply or need for a creative process, such as paint, scissors, or computer graphic design program
- The process of establishing or building something
- The process of breaking something down into its smallest components (for example, to examine or understand it)
- Weight, load, burden, or feeling weighed down