Quotes About Evocation

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

Just seeing someone express an emotion can evoke that mood, whether you realize you mimic the facial expression or not. This happens to us all the time—there's a dance, a synchrony, a transmission of emotions. This mood synchrony determines whether you feel an interaction went well or not." The

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

a sound, a smell, or a memory could bring it back to mind.

This tenet, however, ignores the primary purpose of prophecy, which is not to give hard and fast statements about an unchangeable future, but to evoke faithful response.

But when he said in his heart of hearts "Vinca!", the name inseparably linked with his friend, evoked the memory of sand, warm to kneel on, or trickling out between fingers that held it in a tight squeeze...

There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in the most unlikely places. Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become an evocation, a possibility for resemblance. Perhaps this is what is meant by that brief and now almost archaic word: elegy

For an average noun or an average verb, an average mind can quickly create reference. Where did they hear it? See it? What does it remind them of? What is its connection? When was it last used in conversation? What has been my experience with it? A host of memories appear when you hear a word you remember.

Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor

The challenge is not only what to select for telling and how to present it, but how to evoke, simultaneously, the Theater of the World—how to make the leap from ego-vision to omnivision.

Our descriptions are an acknowledgment of our unspoken agreement with the reader that we are not simply telling a tale but evoking an imaginary world.

Second, there is a general tendency to think that the NAME itself can evoke, invoke, and provides what might be called conscious cognitive mental access INTO the conceptual realities that have been named as things-in-themselves. This MAY be workable depending on what is involved, but it tends to be unworkable if conceptual realities are NOT discrete things-in- themselves.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

You might say that he had lost the gift of evoking the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women. He had damaged, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.

There is nothing like wine for conjuring up feelings of contentment and goodwill. It is less of a drink than an experience, an evocation, a spirit. It produces sensations that defy description.

She knew what the Barbour aftershave would make her think of, and of course it did with its forest violets and cinnamon bark.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

And the journey is an evocation of three things in particular: a landscape that is incomparable, a time that is gone forever, and the human spirit, which endures.