Imagery Quotes - Page 9

• 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

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• Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

  Antonin Artaud

  Analogies, Association, Destruction

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

  Terry Brooks

  Thinking, Use, Language

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• I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started watching GoPro videos, the thing that struck me the most was that the sound seemed completely detached from the imagery.

  Taraka Larson

  Sports, Sound, Video

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.

  Lloyd deMause

  Book, Childhood, Historical

  "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.

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• I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

  Adam Rapp

  Dream, Scary, Suffering

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• I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.

  Lady Gaga

  Fashion, Jobs, Artist

  ARTISTdirect Interview, www.artistdirect.com. January 30, 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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• Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

  Alain de Botton

  Eels, Style, Mind

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

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• 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.

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• My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

  David Salle

  Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• 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

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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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• She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.

  Isaac Marion

  Love, Dream, Sweet

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

  Penn Jillette

  Lying, Nuts, People

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

  Adam Lambert

  Thinking, Choices, Might

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• Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

  John Lydon

  Cutting, Together, Punk

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• Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

  Jon Meacham

  Heart, Simple, Reality

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• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Feelings, Emotion

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• 'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Character, Thinking, Elysium

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• Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

  Martin Filler

  War, Machines, World

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• When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Details, Helping, Adaptation

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• An old black ram is tupping your white ewe

  William Shakespeare

  White, Black, Rams

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

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