Imagery Quotes

Imagery Quote of the day

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

I specifically ordered Persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple Persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh.

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.

We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)

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

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

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

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.