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Quotes About Images

Since the days of the French Revolution, one half of Europe has been referred to as the left, the other half as the right. Yet to define one or the other by means of the theoretical principles it professes is all but impossible. And no wonder: political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on the fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or that political kitsch.
~ Milan Kundera
No es la fe de lo que estoy hablando. Son imágenes, ideas. No e por qué tendría que deshacerme de ellas. Me quedaría huérfano sin ellas.
~ Milan Kundera
The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Hacedores de imágenes, devolved la palabra a los hombres!
~ César Vallejo
a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away
~ Terry Brooks
The whirl of images refused to remain still. The flames. Edwina. The spreading pool of Dominic's blood, glistening in the firelight.
~ Tess Gerritsen
The reality is that we are safe and we have the capacity to enjoy the wonders of life in the present moment. When we recognize that our suffering is based on images instead of current reality, then living happily in the present moment becomes possible right away.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Ending our consumption of violent images and toxic communication gives us the chance to transform the violence and suffering in us.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When we recognize that our suffering is based on images instead of current reality, then living happily in the present moment becomes possible right away.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We have thought carefully about how our use of typography, colour, and images can support and enhance 'Guardian' journalism. We have introduced a font called Guardian Headline that is simple, confident, and impactful.
~ Katharine Viner
My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us, I would not be happy about it.
~ Amitava Kumar
There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.
~ Conrad Hall
When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
Long before the kaiko change turned us into mirror images of one another, we were sisters already, spinning identical dreams in beds thousands of miles apart, fantasizing about gold silks and an "imperial vocation.
~ Karen Russell
Näytä minulle kuvia, sanoja en enää ymmärrä.
~ Kari Hotakainen
We once enjoyed fairly high rhetoric in America, most notably in our politics, but few today will have images of the Roman Senate brought to mind when they read of the goings on in the United States Senate.
~ Karl Keating
Words are processed by our short-term memory where we can only retain about seven bits of information . . . Images, on the other hand, go directly into long-term memory where they are indelibly etched.
~ Kate Raworth
I wish to speak about the overall unity of all that exists - about unity in multiplicity. I wish to show you two or three facets of a precious crystal, and to draw your attention to the pale images faintly reflected in them.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
What else is a poem about? The rhythm and the images buried in the language. All the ways you can build an emotion with words, but you can't just write 'I feel sad.' I mean, you can, but it's not poetry... I think it has to be experienced instead of studied. You step into it.
~ Garret Freymann-Weyr
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
~ Gaston Bachelard
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Thoughts are like raindrops,' he persisted, introducing yet another of his interminable images. 'They fall, make a splash and then dry up. But the world of wyrd is like the mighty oceans from which raindrops arise and to which they return in rivers and streams.
~ Brian Bates
that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
~ Brian Friel
A-that it is not the literal past, the 'facts ' of history, that shape us, but images of that past embodied in language. B-we must never cease renewing those images; because once we do, we fossilise.
~ Brian Friel