Quotes About Image

The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.

According to Scripture the essence of man consists in this, that he is the image of God. As such he is distinguished from all other creatures and stands supreme as the head and crown of the entire creation.

Were we not all created in God's image, and though we are all fallen from our original state, does not a spark of divine fire remain in each of us?

She's a triumph of image over reality. I'm not even sure if she knows what reality is anymore, she's so busy creating this image of herself.

She always seemed dead anyway, but nicely so, like an illustration or an advertisement.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

Y sin duda nuestro tiempo... prefiere la imagen a la cosa, la copia al original, la representación a la realidad, la apariencia al ser... lo que es 'sagrado' para él no es sino la ilusión, pero lo que es profano es la verdad. Mejor aún: lo sagrado aumenta a sus ojos a medida que disminuye la verdad y crece la ilusión, hasta el punto de que el colmo de la ilusión es también para él el colmo de lo sagrado

Man … projects his being into objectivity. … [T]hen … makes himself an object to this projected image of himself[.]

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

You can put a pig in a ball gown, Minka. That doesn't make it a debutante.

They have filtered God's Word and commands through their own culturally influenced thinking. Their image of His glory is formed by their limited perceptions rather than by His true image as revealed through His living Word.

You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

Dracula would have felt less fear examining his own reflection.

Perfectionism or Anomie. Always be right in everything you do. The perfectionist rule always involves an imposed measurement. The fear and avoidance of the negative is the organizing principle of life. The members live according to an externalized image. No one ever measures up. In the less-than-human family, there are no rules—the children have no structure to guide them.

Imagen es lo que la gente piensa que somos. Integridad es lo que en realidad somos.

Abraham Lincoln dijo: "El carácter era como un árbol y la reputación como su sombra. La sombra es lo que pensamos de él; el árbol era lo verdadero".

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be.

When we wear our heart on our sleeve, nobody notices our great butts!

Some people are so fake, sitting around lying on Facebook all day bragging about stuff they don't have.

If you're going to be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

A nice girl is just a bad girl that doesn't get caught.

It's important that your inside character is bigger than your outside persona. A sports car with a lawnmower engine won't work.

It takes years to prove that you are good person, and seconds to destroy that image.

What I know in life runs the gamut of the "feminist experience." The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.