Imagery Quotes - Page 8

• To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Scientist, Visuals

  "Letters to a Young Scientist". Book by E. O. Wilson, 2013.

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• I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Jobs, Artist

  ARTISTdirect Interview, www.artistdirect.com. January 30, 2009.

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• An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

  William Shakespeare

  White, Black, Rams

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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• When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Details, Helping, Adaptation

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• Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively representation of ideas assembled together, gives every sensible object those heightening touches, and that striking imagery, which is unknown to men of slower apprehensions: wit being to sensible objects, what light is to bodies; it does not merely show them as they are in themselves: it gives an adventitious colour, which is not a property inherent in them: it lends them beauties which are not their own.

  Jeremiah Seed

  Men, Light, Ideas

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• In Dreams...well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

  Neil Jordan

  Dream, Directors, Too Much

  Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• Scary rock n' roll bands had all the devilish imagery. But at the same time, it's not because they were devil worshippers, they were saying that society is run by devils. It was human society that created these things, they become the devils. This is what you worship. This money is what you worship. This idea is what you worship.

  Immortal Technique

  Running, Rocks, Ideas

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

  Terry Brooks

  Thinking, Use, Language

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• Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

  Alain de Botton

  Eels, Style, Mind

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

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• Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, Magic, Accepted

  "The Necessity of Poetry Tredegar". Book by Robert Bridges, 1917.

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• She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.

  Isaac Marion

  Love, Dream, Sweet

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

  Gregory Maguire

  Elements, World, Juxtaposition

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• Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

  Antonin Artaud

  Analogies, Association, Destruction

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• In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Athlete, Mean

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• But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.

  Diane Duane

  Voice, Clothes, Air

  Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.

  Garry Trudeau

  Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

  "When cartoons are the news / Artists confront issue of how to address protests sparked by Muhammad's image" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2006.

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• But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

  Damien Hirst

  Photography, Taken, Light

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• My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

  David Salle

  Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• "You'd better. Otherwise Stryker and I will feast on your innards, bathe in your blood and I will use your eyes as earrings." Jericho snorted. "You know, with imagery like that, you should write for Hallmark."

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Writing, Eye, Blood

  "Dream Warrior". Book by Sherrilyn Kenyon, February 2, 2009.

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• I’ll abide by my word, but you will never win me back! Believe me, in two weeks I will slice open your throat, drink from your blood, and then pierce your heart and laugh while your body explodes into dust. (Zephyra) Beautiful imagery. You should write for Hallmark. (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Believe, Writing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.69, Macmillan

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• Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

  Terry McMillan

  Book, People, Worry

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• In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change the way we look at the world, or rally disparate hearts to a single cause. Yet, ours is a society shaped by this very phenomenon.

  Steve McCurry

  Heart, Looks, World

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• What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

  Mos Def

  Use, Language, Economy

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• I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Choices, Might

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