Quotes About Imagery

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.

Pointing and clicking like Annie Leibovitz

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages …

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble.

Water dripping from his slapping fruits

It was as if the room beyond the blast furnace was a tub and someone had turned the faucets on the cold and hot running snakes.

salvation is from the Jews" (Jn 4:22). It is so critical for Christians to recognize the fact that the imagery of betrothal and marriage, the language of husband and wife, does not begin in the New Testament. It began with the Exodus

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

Read them and you hear echoes of one story inside another, then echoes of another inside that. pg. 43

If women are inhibited sexually by culture, changes in the imagery promoted by the culture will bring about a change in behavior, which will in turn bring about a change in values, which will in turn usher in the revolution

an emerging racial imagery crisis for Europeans. The Europeans could not enslave a race that they also felt was one of the primary sources of the rise of their own civilization. A psychological shift occurred. Soon Blacks were psychologically erased from Egyptian history as anything other than slaves. Blacks were "scientifically" lowered to the level of simpleton, sensuous, inferior, brutish, bodily, and so on and so forth, and therefore "naturally" suited to slavery.

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.

A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both.

Imagery is powerful. Imagery is provocative - satellite imagery much more so because it is from space, and it allows us to get this perspective that we don't have to have otherwise.

I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low enough that I can do what I want.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

I will say that when it comes to the horror genre, for me, the scariest thing is when something is actually in the frame.

He felt anew the hyperillumination with its high-relief imagery of time, sensed his future becoming memories

was forbidden throughout the empire to produce or to display images of Christ

Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn, Im dunklen Laub die Goldorangen glühn.