Quotes About Image

We may have reached the point where cosmetics has replaced ideology as the field of expertise over which a politician must have competent control.

We look at the television screen and ask, in the same voracious way as the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" We are inclined to vote for those whose personality, family life, and style, as imaged on the screen, give back a better answer than the Queen received.

just as the television commercial empties itself of authentic product information so that it can do its psychological work, image politics empties itself of authentic political substance for the same reason

history can play no significant role in image politics. For history is of value only to someone who takes seriously the notion that there are patterns in the past which may provide the present with nourishing traditions.

La aparición en la arena política del asesor de imagen y el simultáneo declive del redactor de discursos atestiguan el hecho de que la televisión demanda un contenido que difiere del exigido por los otros medios. No se puede hacer filosofía política en televisión porque su forma conspira contra el contenido.

The new focus on the image undermined traditional definitions of information, of news, and, to a large extent, of reality itself.

Those who would be gods refashion themselves into images the viewers would have them be.

As Xenophanes remarked twenty-five centuries ago, men always make their gods in their own image. But to this, television politics has added a new wrinkle: Those who would be gods refashion themselves into images the viewers would have them be.

For on television the politician does not so much offer the audience an image of himself, as offer himself as an image of the audience.

This is the lesson of all great television commercials: They provide a slogan, a symbol or a focus that creates for viewers a comprehensive and compelling image of themselves.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

Probably one of those who ostentatiously carried plastic bags but never stooped to using one.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

described as indexical. What he meant was an image made by the physical being of the object, not a line drawing.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

El habla es una imagen de la mente y la mente es una imagen de Dios. - Hermética, traducción W. Scott.

Within families, you're stuck with the character they think you are, whatever you do. You become a war hero and all that your parents ever talk about is something supposedly funny you used to do when you were in nursery school.

THE DESIRE FOR PRIVACY is strong; vanity is stronger.

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek.

There was something it was searching for - some kind of memory of a previous life - a scent, an image. Was it the purple-headed man, or something else?

The celebrity and the totalitarian share a desire to have their faces in every newspaper and on every television screen.

For me, an image becomes meaningless inasmuch as it's always temporary. See, I've gone off on that tangent again, because you asked me about the image and all that. I just couldn't relate to all that side of things because, all that time, I was focused on trying to make the music sound half-way decent.

Her face had been digitally erased and replaced by the star's, but I would have recognized anywhere those shoulders and tight waist, the way she turned like an eel through the air, as though she had all the time in the world.