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

  George H. Mead

  Past, Order, Process

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• During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

  Joshua Foer

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• 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.

  Franz Kline

  Doe, Emotion, Painting

  "Conversations With Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

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• I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

  Henry Cavill

  Stuff, Modern, Because I Can

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual - and hence social - confidence while undermining that of women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Long, Culture

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, October 24, 1991.

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• 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.

  Christopher Nolan

  Understanding, Filmmaker, Symbols

  "Q&A: Christopher Nolan On Dreams, Architecture, And Ambiguity". Interview with Obert Capps, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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

  Shakira

  Thinking, Feelings, Vision

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• 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.

  Glenn Gould

  Music, Keys, Individual

  "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 445, 1984.

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• 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.

  Michael Bell

  Expression, Connections, Language

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• The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Imagination, Quality

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• How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?

  Novala Takemoto

  People, Embrace, Disturbing

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• 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.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Choices, Way, Aesthetics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The practice of imagination, on an everyday basis, involves clearing unhelpful images that block or misdirect our energies, and choosing to focus on positive, mobilizing imagery that gives us courage and confidence.

  Robert Moss

  Block, Practice, Giving

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• The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the tools they use is visualization or mental imagery… they made the choice to create their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately succeeded.

  George Kohlrieser

  Athlete, Destiny, Imagination

  George Kohlrieser (2011). “Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all images, the soul is fed in contemplation by the essences of the highest realm, knowing the permanent noumena of things. Then, satiated with this knowing, it descends again to the earthly realm. And precisely at the boundary between the two worlds, the soul’s spiritual knowledge assumes the shapes of symbolic imagery: and it is these images that make permanent the work of art. Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life.

  Pavel Florensky

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.

  Terry Bozzio

  Trying, Titles, Term

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

  William T. Wiley

  Thinking, Desire, Painting

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• I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. I’m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable.

  Pieter Hugo

  Challenges, Nervous, Uncomfortable

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• These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are. I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism. If the martial imagery alienates you, I can rephrase it. I want my lifemy bodyto be the place where the earth is cherished not devoured, where the sadist is granted no quarter, where the violence stops.

  Lierre Keith

  Spiritual, War, Passion

  Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.1, PM Press

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• Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Dream, Way, Invisible

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with the spacing and the intensity of imagery on the form in a way which I could not. So that when we established our pottery, I was most unhappy with my decoration.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Hands, Play, Unhappy

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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

  Katherine McCoy

  Color, Texture, Abstract

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• The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming nonsense and balderdash plaguing Washington D.C. It uses a bit of satire and a bit of wishful thinking to form this powerful amalgam of imagery that nourishes and empowers the living art of the song. Our message is clear: Either these elected officials do their job and protect the rights and lives of ALL Americans or be prepared to face the consequences.

  Otep Shamaya

  Song, Art, Jobs

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Feelings, Care, Emotion

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.158, Penguin

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• The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

  John S. Pistole

  Hurt, Technology, Air

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