What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly.… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
“He would sit singing, his cheeks turning red above his whiskers; but his voice always came out deep and steady, like the… — Ruth Moore Copy Share Image
There are some people who believe that dreams really are just kind of a throwaway thing. They are just a way of… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
“There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED… — Jeff Fisher Copy Share Image
I feel like we are so used to CGI [computer-generated imagery] and thank god because it is a wonderful tool, but there… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There,… — Pavel Florensky Copy Share Image
“Thousands of mosquitoes had already bitten all of us on chest and arms and ankles. Then a bright idea came to me:… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her… — Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio Copy Share Image
“Few witnesses agree, and fewer still were granted a glimpse of the Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine. Its course took it under the… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Advertising is profoundly manipulative at its core. Its imagery strives to deprive us of realistic ideas about love, sex, beauty, health, money,… — Jennifer L. Pozner Copy Share Image
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Before doing fieldwork in Middle Egypt, I analyzed satellite imagery to determine exactly where I wanted to go. Within three weeks, I… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
“Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded… — Duane Elmer Copy Share Image
Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait,… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence… — King Krule Copy Share Image
Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and… — John Coldstream Copy Share Image
Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
The only conclusion I could arrive at with the death of the workers' movement as a revolutionary force - you know the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I do love the term 'rocker.' The word itself imbues a ton of imagery and romance. But I don't think a rocker… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“a simple dream, set in a city park, along an avenue of mature elms, whose overarching branches turned the avenue into a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
For seven years ancient Israel could not be stopped in the Joshua book. I have found this to be a great imagery… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Normally if you add information to information, you have more information. In case of my art, I destroy information, I would say,… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image