Imagery Quotes - Page 9

• It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Mean, Technology, Mazes

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• Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Quilts, Women, Moving

  Miriam Schapiro (1985). “Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985”

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• Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

  Alicia Keys

  Views, Hip Hop, Stuff

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into the killer instinct inherent in animals, where they are locked onto a target and will walk through anything that gets between them and their intended target.

  Robert Patrick

  Animal, Target, Substance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  Kathryn Stripling Byer

  Girl, Moving, Twilight

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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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• The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.

  David Perkins

  Sports, Teaching, Learning

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• The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Voice, Intuition, Woven

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• The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect the scene he is trying to dramatize enough to fashion it through precise prose and imaginative imagery. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by

  Leonard Bishop

  Fashion, Powerful, Book

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• 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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• 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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• Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Book, Heart

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• Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

  Carol P. Christ

  Males, Doe, Pronouns

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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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• If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

  Franz Kline

  Doe, Emotion, Painting

  "Conversations With Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.

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• I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

  Galen Rowell

  Believe, Thinking, Artist

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• At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

  Chuck Close

  Color, Trying, World

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• My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

  Jim Dine

  Mean, Dine In, Feelings

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• Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.

  Jean Houston

  Journey, Practice, Psychology

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• From time to time, from the endless flow of our mental imagery, there emerges unexpectedly something that, vague though it may be, seems to carry the promise of a form, a meaning, and, more important, an irresistible poetic charge.

  Leo Lionni

  Promise, Important, Flow

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• ...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

  George B. Ward

  Photography, Grace, Technique

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• I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Doe, Abstraction

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• A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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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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• 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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