Imagery Quotes

I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

— Ray Davies

Imagery is like music.

— Steven Bochco

“The shadow has become the substance.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Words are tools of imagery in motion,

— Sam Shepard

I like visual imagery in my head.

— Stephen Malkmus

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

— Rod McKuen

I know how important imagery is.

— Kano

“You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate”

— Phillip Gary Smith

“There is no cure for illusion. There is only the opportunity for discovery.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“The lake was a shield of beaten brass flung down in the valley under a full sun.”

— Jane Urquhart

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

— Joseph Campbell

I feel like the most interesting imagery out there does not have me in it.

— John Wilson

“Outside, the world whistled. The rain was stained.”

— Markus Zusak

Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values.

— Chelsea Manning

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

— Stefan Kanfer

“When he did appear his eyes were as brown as I remembered, pupils flecked with gold like beach pebbles.”

— Amber Dawn

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

— Wayne Dyer

That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past…

— Hilda Doolittle

It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the…

— Zach Braff

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

— Alan Watts

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget…

— Neill Blomkamp

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal…

— Anonymous

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion…

— Noam Chomsky

“desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on…

— Peter Blegvad

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated…

— Martin Filler

A lot of the times we don't see enough of strength. Imagery is obviously a large part of it. I think it's…

— Tika Sumpter

Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful that music and songs incorporate the imagery.…

— Tim Burton

It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom…

— Siri Hustvedt

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not…

— Marge Piercy

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle…

— Martha Rosler

We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual…

— Adam Fuss

I so love the animation process. Interesting, everything that I do in animation, the kind of crafting and skills of storytelling, totally…

— Roy Conli

CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images…

— Darren Aronofsky

A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,…

— J. G. Ballard

“The necropolis has never seemed a city of death to me; I know its purple roses (which other people think so hideous)…

— Gene Wolfe

Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a…

— Northrop Frye

We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing.”

— Mary Butts