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Quotes About Images

By then I'd already learned that thoughts sometimes come to us in words, and sometimes in images. There were some thoughts - such as a memory of running under the pouring rain, and how it felt - that I couldn't even begin to put into words … Yet their image was clear in my mind. And there were other things that I could describe in words but were otherwise impossible to visualize: black light, my mother's death, infinity.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Natasha's dance is an emblem of the view to be taken in this book: there is no quintessential national culture, only mythic images of it, like Natasha's version of the peasant dance.
~ Orlando Figes
In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nothing can replace the feel of the paper against your fingers, the ink soaked up by paper, the sensation of turning a page with the wind rustling your hair, or the deliberate and intricate presentation of images and text that you can only get in the real world, on real pages. And few things can be as torturous as sitting in front of a computer screen for hours on end.
~ CrimethInc.
That's what movies are, right? Thousands of still pictures taken months or years or decades before—streams of images burned onto celluloid that are reeled in front of a lamp and projected onto a screen, allowing us the illusion that they're alive. Flickers of light and dark. Brightness and shadow that won't stand still—like life itself.
~ Wally Lamb
That night I lay in bed with the evening's images spinning before me. I felt energized, as if electrical current were passing through me. Sleep was impossible, I told myself, then dozed, lulled by all the answers to the question of why I was so sad.
~ Wally Lamb
the images of my metropolitan childhood perhaps are capable, at their core, of preforming later historical experience' .
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
We are all creatures of myth, shadowed by archaic images of life and death.
~ Chet Williamson
What is at stake here is a totally new unity of form, meaning and feeling: language-images that cannot simply be thought up or written up … They constitute new, multifaceted objects, resembling polyplanes made of mirrors … As if the illogical was relaxation, as if laughter was permitted while thinking, as if error was a way and chance, a proof of eternity.
~ Hans Bellmer
patients (A, B, and C). Upper images are PET and lower images are fused PET/CT.
~ Harvey A. Ziessman
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
~ Laurie Cabot
The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol , the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.
~ Laurie R. King
The Mars rover Curiosity has sent back images of some odd things on the surface of Mars, and some people think they could be UFOs. Here's my question. If we're on the surface of Mars, aren't we the UFO?
~ leno jay
Mythology has accepted him, images he cannot really believe in, images brief as dreams. The sweat rolls down his arms. He tumbles into the damp leaves of love, he rises clean as air. There is nothing about her he does not adore. When they are finished, she lies quiet and limp, exhausted by it all. She has become entirely his, and they lie like drunkards, their bare limbs crossed. In the cold distance the bells begin, filling the darkness, clear as psalms.
~ James Salter
But even though I felt her presence, I also felt the habitual fruitlessness of thinking about her. Her images, partly memories of her, partly memories of photos I had seen of her, yielded no new answers to old mysteries.
~ Jane Smiley
I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.
~ Vija Celmins
A Witch's work is mind work and utilizes powerful metaphors, allegories, and images that unlock the powers of the mind.
~ Laurie Cabot
The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.
~ Larry Clark
I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.
~ Cate Blanchett
The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.
~ Martin Rees
It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.
~ Michel Hazanavicius
The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.
~ Pedro Almodovar
Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.
~ Allison Williams
In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive pictures of our heroes and repulsive images of our enemies.
~ Virginia Postrel