Imagery Quotes - Page 5

• The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

  Michael Parenti

  Successful, Liberty, Fabric

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• We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

  John Ruskin

  Writing, History, May

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.164

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• When a friend of mine introduced me to the music of Luca C & Brigante I was stuck with an apocalyptic feeling, as if I were listening to the sound of a party at the end of the world. And with such strong imagery coming to mind I was only too happy to write with them when they asked. Flash of Light is about that last night on earth, a forewarning of the end of an era and a last chance to Love.

  Roisin Murphy

  Strong, Party, Writing

  FaceBook post by Róisín Murphy from Aug 26, 2012

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• The type of adverts to be found on television and in glossy magazines are visually designed to have a power over the mind before they can even be questioned. The dark side of my work, primarily concerns the internal mechanisms of visual imagery and how these mechanisms address the mind.

  Mat Collishaw

  Dark, Mind, Magazines

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• Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

  Mari Evans

  People, Magic, Singing

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Chinese, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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

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• 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.

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• I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.

  Cecily Brown

  Cat, Boredom, Want

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• In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Character, Thinking, Plot

  Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

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• After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Sex, Kids, Race

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• Normally if you add information to information, you have more information. In case of my art, I destroy information, I would say, because the image is disturbed by the writings. In a way, they become pure imagery. For me it's really fun because it's an idealistic approach to images, to just play around with information and see what's happening.

  Thomas Ruff

  Art, Fun, Writing

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• I’ll abide by my word, but you will never win me back! Believe me, in two weeks I will slice open your throat, drink from your blood, and then pierce your heart and laugh while your body explodes into dust. (Zephyra) Beautiful imagery. You should write for Hallmark. (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Believe, Writing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.69, Macmillan

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• "You'd better. Otherwise Stryker and I will feast on your innards, bathe in your blood and I will use your eyes as earrings." Jericho snorted. "You know, with imagery like that, you should write for Hallmark."

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Writing, Eye, Blood

  "Dream Warrior". Book by Sherrilyn Kenyon, February 2, 2009.

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Scientist, Visuals

  "Letters to a Young Scientist". Book by E. O. Wilson, 2013.

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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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• 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

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• Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.

  Garry Trudeau

  Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

  "When cartoons are the news / Artists confront issue of how to address protests sparked by Muhammad's image" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2006.

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• But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

  Damien Hirst

  Photography, Taken, Light

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