Imagery Quotes - Page 9

• I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

  Maya Angelou

  Song, Mean, Southern

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• Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Thinking, Circles

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, pp. 257-258, 1963.

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• The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Symbolism, Able

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.

  Camille Henrot

  Christian, Art, Ancient

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way, by silk-screening or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on.

  Matthew Collings

  Dumb, Way, Screening

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• I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Writing, Thinking, Stand Alone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Book, Writing, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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• David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Ideas, Gentleman

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• I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if you have just a really good teacher, it's inspiring. I certainly use, in my work, I mean, I used to rely heavily on imagery. I was obsessed with this photograph that was in the NY Times of a fish engulfing a smaller fish and this smaller fish had this look in its eyes; it knew what was about to happen and, I don't know how they ever captured such an image, but I've used that for a play I (did). It's called "Saved."

  Amy Ryan

  Teacher, Mean, Eye

  Source: collider.com

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• If there's no magic of cinema, you only have the plain imagery of television. We are moving more and more towards a world devoid of meaningful experiences. We're going to the surface.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Meaningful, Moving, Magic

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.

  John Baldessari

  Horse, Fall, Kissing

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• The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a period in which the veracity of even the straight, unmanipulated photograph has been under attack for a couple of decades.

  Martha Rosler

  Couple, Hands, Computer

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• Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)

  Martha Rosler

  Leaving, Littles, Faces

  Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.179, MIT Press

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• Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?

  Feist

  Able, Imagine, Grandkids

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 6, 2010.

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• When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Stuff, Ends, Animation

  Source: collider.com

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• I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sex, Thinking, Shows

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Anything can be misinterpreted. People can look at Christ on a cross and think, This is an image of murder, this is violent, this has sexual imagery in it. And it just - I think it's my job as an artist to be out there pushing people's buttons and making them question everything.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Fiction, World

  "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

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• Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

  Susan Sontag

  Reality, Wings, Erotic

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• That way of inspiration
  is always open,
  and open to everyone;
  it acts as go-between, interpreter,
  it explains symbols of the past
  in to-day's imagery.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Dream, Art, Inspiration

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• I feel like we are so used to CGI [computer-generated imagery] and thank god because it is a wonderful tool, but there is an element of everything you are looking at has been created in the comfort of a studio. I want to return to a world where I can celebrate when you are really interacting with the world.

  Larry Fessenden

  Thank God, Elements, World

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• Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Singing, Trying

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

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• Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

  Tom Hooper

  Film, Rich, Posh

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I like visual imagery in my head.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Visuals, Visual Imagery

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

  Panda Bear

  Hard Times, Watches, Horror

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