Imagery Quotes - Page 2

• American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

  Caroline Knapp

  Girl, School, Air

  2 Copy quote

• My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

  David Salle

  Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a planner. I should be more articulate about what the imagery means, but I don't have a good reason for it; it's just there.

  Joe Bradley

  Mean, Reason, Should

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Focus, Perception, Awareness

  "On the nature of visions". Lecture in Vienna, 1912.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Robert Gober

  Growing Up, Religion, Trying

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  0 Copy quote

• 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.

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Edward Ruscha

  Weakness, Heroic, Artistic

  Interview with Ossian Ward, www.timeout.com. February 12, 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The reason I introduced sex - or erotic imagery - to Purple is not only because I don't want sex to be hidden but because also I consider it as an extension of fashion, the way the body expresses seduction and beauty. It's very artificial to put sex in a ghetto. Plus, sex sells.

  Olivier Zahm

  Fashion, Ghetto, Seduction

  Source: wwd.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't compare us, but I do think that Calvin Klein influenced his way of working. Calvin created this whole aesthetic with imagery - the whole sex thing. I can see that Calvin influence on his work. What Calvin has created is untouchable. My legacy, whatever it is I'm doing here, is miniscule compared to what he has done. It's just like an update deal.

  Francisco Costa

  Thinking, Legacy, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's translated to the small, you know, kind of icons on your computer. You name it.

  DJ Spooky

  Iphone, Names, Ideas

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  1 Copy quote

• I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls. This was in the late '70s, early '80s, so it wasn't like today, where you kind of know all about the industry. Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

  Guido Palau

  Fashion, Glitter, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Ann Beattie

  Character, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program with great integrity and clinical relevance.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Integrity, Years, Creative

  0 Copy quote

• Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central problem in contemporary photography is to bring about a wider significance in purely textural imagery.

  Arthur Tress

  Photography, Fall, Mean

  3 Copy quote

• I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

  Margaret Mahy

  Thinking, Games, Ideas

  1 Copy quote

• The mobility of the eye is such a fundamental treasure that we have, and that coexists with sensation. On the dance floor, you are totally in reality, while also experiencing this dream imagery of changing colors and wet surfaces of skin. Sometimes it's the shadow outline in the strobe light, and in another moment it's the closeup of an armpit that you're looking into. I'm not photographing all the time, but it's something that I actually see all the time, and not just on the dance floor.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Dream, Eye, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Character, Ideas

  0 Copy quote

• I so love the animation process. Interesting, everything that I do in animation, the kind of crafting and skills of storytelling, totally work within the structure of the Disney nature films. In a weird way, I like to think that animation is like painting, and Disney nature is like sculpting. Animation you start with a blank canvas and you paint. With Disney nature, you start with a big block of imagery and you hone it down into your final story. Somewhere you end up with something kind of pretty to watch.

  Roy Conli

  Block, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

  Will Cotton

  Desire, Firsts, Painting

  0 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

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

  Terry Brooks

  Thinking, Use, Language

  0 Copy quote

• Imagery is like music.

  Steven Bochco

  0 Copy quote