Visual Images Quotes - Page 2

• ...never have I subscribed to the doctrine of willful rejection of the world or its visual image. To the non-objectivist this act of impiety may be shockingly impure, but God, I have no desire to be either hollow or sterile.

  Norman Mailer

  Rejection, Desire, Doctrine

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• There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

  Robert Crumb

  Ideas, Connections, Band

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.

  Don DeLillo

  Space, People, Three

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.

  David Berman

  Intelligent, Long Ago, Perspective

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• Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

  Philip Pullman

  Ideas, Imagination, Urban

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.

  Drake

  Perfection, Situation, Walks

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• What Warcollier demonstrated is compatible with what modern cognitive neuroscience has learned about how visual images are constructed by the brain. It implies that telepathic perceptions bubble up into awareness from the unconscious and are probably processed in the brain in the same way that we generate images in dreams. And thus telepathic “images” are far less certain than sensory-driven images and subject to distortion.

  Dean Radin

  Dream, Perception, Brain

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, Skills, Understanding

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