Quotes About Imagery

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas. El barco sobre la mar y el caballo en la montaña. Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain.

La televisión nunca le gustó porque no tenía poder de sugestión. Porque las imágenes, que son unívocas, no le encendían, como las palabras, la imaginación.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

Yes, it had a mouth full of teeth, yellow, shiny teeth. It had yellow eyes and grey hair all over its body.

The image of her in another man's arms was stuck in my mind, as real as life. As if there was a demon with nowhere else to go clinging to a corner of the ceiling, eyes fastened on me.

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

Catholicism is so steeped in imagery. It's one of the many reasons Catholicism has given birth to so many great filmmakers compared to the Protestant tradition - even in America, where we're primarily Protestant.

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

Ich erinnere mich an dich. Wie loderndes Feuer hast du in dieser Hoele ausgesehen, als waerst du ein Wesen aus leuchtenden, tanzenden Farben

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

It is true that William Shakespeare used some learned parlance in his work, but he also employed imagery that clearly and ringingly reflected a rural background. Jonathan Bate quotes a couplet from Cymbeline, "Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney sweepers, come to dust," which takes on additional sense when one realizes that in Warwickshire in the sixteenth century a flowering dandelion was a golden lad, while one about to disperse its seeds was a chimney sweeper.

The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

Fear can resemble a crackling sound in a frozen ditch.

But if all my paintings were imitations of the images in my brain, then the images in my brain had always been only echoes of this. We were in Feyland at last. - Breena Malloy from Bitter Frost by Kailin Gow.

Guénon nous dit une fois que si nous pouvions rencontrer des hommes de l'âge d'or, nous serions frappés par le fait qu'ils parleraient toujours en images et non en langage abstrait. (De l'Esprit symboliste - Études Traditionnelles N°340, juin 1957)

That's what anxiety feels like to me. Escalating loss of control, worst-case-scenario thinking and imagery, and total uncertainty.

I am a man who would live an heroic life and make the world more endurable in his own sight. If, in some moment of weakness,of relaxation, of need, I blow off steam-a bit of red-hot rage cooled off in words-a passionate dream, wrapped and tied in imagery_well, take it or leave it...but don't bother me!

over the dull cranium of Zola the chimneys are belching pure coke, while the Madonna of Sandwiches listens with cabbage ears to the bubbling of the gas tanks, those beautiful bloated toads which squat by the roadside.

Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of nomads who roamed the steppes 3,000 years ago and whose artifacts abound in eagle imagery.

I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees lining our driveway had turned red like a row of burning matches.'