Quotes About Vividness

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Algunas personas dicen que vivir el momento produce cambios en sus percepciones visuales. Ellos ven las imágenes con mayor nitidez; los colores parecen más vibrantes. Sus acciones e incluso aquellas de las personas que lo rodean contienen mayor significado.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

Vitalidad: una mirada basta.

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

She moved as lightly as a mote of dust gamboling in a sunbeam passing through the stained glass window of a French Gothic cathedral. Her breasts stood up proudly like twin tin soldiers. Looking at her made him feel an uncontrollable urge to vomit forth his innermost feelings, straight at her.

He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.

The vividness and force with which we trace the motion of history depends on the degree to which we look beyond persons and fix our gaze on things.

She'd never felt more powerful. She wanted to do this again. In an hour. In the middle of the night. In the morning. She wanted to wake up like this, shaking and strong and whole and broken all at once.

C.S. Lewis had come to demand of his nightly prayers a realization, a certain vividness of the imagination and the affectations – a sure recipe for sleeplessness and misery.

We are the most alive and closest to the meaning of existence when we are most vulnerable, when experience has humbled us and has cured the arrogance which, like a form of deafness, prevents us from hearing the lessons that this world teaches.

The value of any experience isn't in its positive or negative effect on his life but in the sheer luminous power of it, the vividness, the ferocity, the amount and degree of pure sensation that it provides. Intensity.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

The richness of human life is that we have many lives; we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do.

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.

the history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness, and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever;

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

There was a vividness to him, even at rest, that made death and spirits seem foolish

No se nos queda grabada eternamente una imagen con que soñamos porque se embellezca y mejore con el reflejo de los colores extraños que por azar la rodeen en nuestros sueños, porque aquellos paisajes de los libros que leía se me representaban con mayor viveza en la imaginación que los que Combray me ponía delante y los análogos que me hubiera podido presentar.

nu simt decât c? am un curcubeu în cap… ?i trebuie s? beau întruna ap? ca s? nu se evapore… ?i s? stau în lumin? ca s? sclipeasc?… s?-l pot vedea

The world is blood-hot and personal. —Sylvia Plath

Tempe is like a condensed drop of color that has landed in my world of water, spreading and outlining things, creating contrast and vividness. More than one drop might be too much.