Quotes About Image

If at a given moment, the commodity was its own publicity (there was no other) today publicity has become its own commodity.

It is dangerous not to conform with people's image of us, because they do not readily retract their opinions.

We only serve as a model to the portrait of our fame

When I was little, my Aunt Bigeois told me 'If you look at yourself too long in the mirror, you'll see a monkey.' I must have looked at myself even longer than that: what I see is well below the monkey, on the fringe of the vegetable world, at the level of jellyfish.

I skim through the issue [of Elle] and reach the offending photo, a montage that ridicules rather than glorifies our idol. It is one of the mysteries of our trade. You work for weeks on a subject, it goes back and forth among the most skillful pairs of hands, and no one spots the glaring blunder that a neophyte would spot in a second.

One thus arrives at a curious conception of thought. Thought has no real, concrete existence, accessible to immediate consciousness, since the datum of introspection is the image. It has no universality in act, because, if it were so, one should be able to grasp it directly. But it is a potential universality that one derives from the fact that a word can be accompanied by very different images.

Arriving in Paris, many English and Americans are surprised to find us less thin than they imagined. They have seen the elegant dresses that appear to be new, the suits which, from afar, still seem fashionable; rarely have they encountered that paleness of face, that bodily decline that normally signifies starvation. Their solicitude, since it has been deceived, turns to rancor: I believe that they are dismayed not to find us conforming to the pathetic image they had formed of us in advance.

When you're famous you can't go to Topshop. Even when I disguise myself in a moustache, baseball cap, sunglasses - the full Madonna kit - it doesn't work: my stupid face is too big.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

The gospel moves us to see others as people created in God's image and that can have a profound impact on people's productivity and work satisfaction.