Quotes About Imagery

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values.

What's so important with fashion imagery and with imagery in general is that it ultimately evokes an emotion.

Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave.

Songs like 'Everything To Help You Sleep' or 'Claws in Your Back' took a little bit more grappling with the actual poetry for me to feel comfortable with the song. And there's a little bit more song crafting going on, and I had a specific idea in mind of the imagery I wanted to evoke.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

I think people often tend to listen to music with their eyes and not their ears, and I just wanted my work to shine, and to be able to convey my message without imagery taking away from that.

I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

MTV and others need to think about putting positive images In kids' minds.

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

I've been able to tour because of my music and I've learned a lot about myself while on the road. I think some of the imagery of my writing are snapshots of where I've been and my feelings about the world.

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

I was glib, even witty, or at least that's how I imagined myself.

The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it legitimized patriarchal power in the culture at large. Here alone is enough reason to recover the Divine Feminine, for there is a real and undeniable connection between the repression of the feminine in our deity and the repression of women.

Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Matter becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth becomes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

A Divine Feminine symbol acts to deconstruct patriarchy, which is one of the reasons there's so much resistance, even hysteria, surrounding the idea of Goddess. The idea of Goddess is so powerfully "other," so vividly female, it comes like a crowbar shattering the lock patriarchy holds on divine imagery.

I see her in my dreams," he said. "Every night.

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.