Imagery Quotes - Page 3

• I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The process of applying music to words is a bit like scoring a film. You've got imagery.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Writing, Years, Two

  Source: progressive.org

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• The bus ride to the arena... I slipped on my Discman and listened to some of my favourite music, all the while imagining myself on the ice. Visualization and imagery are very important in figure skating, or any sport for that matter. This is where you see yourself in your mind performing in front of an audience and judges. I also imagine how I am going to feel during the performance. During the bus ride, I pictured myself skating a perfect program.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Perfect

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• The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but as a concession to the nature of our own mind. It uses scriptural passages in an uplifting fashion as a way, provided for us from the first, to uplift our mind in a manner suitable to our nature.

  Pope Dionysius

  Uplifting, Christian, Fashion

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• My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

  Steven Spielberg

  Stories, Incredibles, Moments

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• Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.

  Cub Koda

  Rocks, Berries, May

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• There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Hip Hop, Emcee

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

  Campbell McGrath

  Land, Perfect, Use

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• The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning.

  Tim Burton

  Beautiful, Strong, Real

  "Tim Burton - part four". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.

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• I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

  Nathan Oliveira

  Artist, Unique, Ideas

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• Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world.

  Northrop Frye

  Men, World, Body

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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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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• Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fashion, Writing, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Real, Loss, Skin Tone

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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 write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

  Annie Dillard

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

  "Author Interview: Annie Dillard, Author of 'The Abundance'". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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• I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.

  Glenn Branca

  Musical, Theatre, Add

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• 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.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Ideas, Way, Poetic

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

  Bob Dylan

  Hipster, America, Thieves

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques.

  Jay Michaelson

  Guitar, Careers, Technique

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I think there's more room for different representations of women within fashion imagery.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, Thinking, Different

  "Alexa Chung Wants to Bring Uggs Back, 2002 Style". Interview with Nikki Ogunnaike, www.elle.com. October 7, 2016.

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• 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?

  Brendon Urie

  Song, Fun, Crazy

  "Interview: Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie On His New Album, 'Death Of A Bachelor'". Interview With Pip Williams, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 22, 2016.

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• 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.

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