Outside, the world whistled. The rain was stained.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and…

— Nathan Oliveira

Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and…

— Robert Lanza

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…

— Hilda Doolittle

“]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is…

— Sappho

Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American…

— Jay Michaelson

“Thousands of mosquitoes had already bitten all of us on chest and arms and ankles. Then a bright idea came to me: I jumped…

— Jack Kerouac

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as…

— Plutarch

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen…

— Brennan Manning

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess,…

— Alison Jackson

Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to…

— Edward Jay Epstein

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 get to…

— Kate Atkinson

“It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.”

— Laura Hillenbrand

“But the future lay open, a thousand kaleidoscopic possibilities with a small quick heartbeat, delicate and impatient”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets…

— Mos Def

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

— Douglas Coop