I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
Surprisingly, Gestalt psychologists have found that when subjected to Ganz fields for long periods of time, we hallucinate. Can empty fields serve as mirrors, not for our exteriors, but for our interiors?
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.
Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.
In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.
The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.
Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.
When I draw a character, very often as I'm doing a face, my face mirrors the expression.
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