Imagery Quotes · Page 4

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to…

— Patricia A. McKillip

The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen…

— Oskar Kokoschka

“The stars have come to the earth, and the ocean has turned over the ground; dark waves meet the sky.”

— Ally Condie

“Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm.”

— Rebecca Maizel

“Let's stay up all night,' Kat whispers. 'Let's wait for the moon to kiss the morning star.”

— Elissa Janine Hoole

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

— Tom Hooper

“Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad…

— Roald Dahl

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

— Jim Starlin

The more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the…

— Martin Scorsese

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,…

— Camille Paglia

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my…

— Clifford Ross

“The thought washed over me like water on a flower shop window, like a soothing, cool lotion after you've showered and spent…

— André Aciman

When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my…

— Danielle Trussoni

“What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic…

— Erik Pevernagie

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and…

— Sarah Parcak

We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the…

— David Doubilet

Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention…

— Samuel Johnson

“I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the…

— Roberto Bolaño

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

— Jack Kerouac

“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

“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

Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),…

— Aristotle

“All her life she had believed in something more, in the mystery that shape-shifted at the edge of her senses. It was…

— Eowyn Ivey

The bus ride to the arena... I slipped on my Discman and listened to some of my favourite music, all the while…

— Josee Chouinard

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by…

— Chuck Close

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant…

— Carol P. Christ

Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection…

— Michael Bell

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people…

— Ann Beattie

“The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and…

— Will Cotton

When I make my socially conscious songs, I go hard with the lyrical content; I go hard with the imagery.

— Raheem DeVaughn

“She was floating, arms outspread, water lapping her body, breathing in a summery fragrance of salt and coconut.”

— Liane Moriarty

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which…

— George Carlin

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

— Sol LeWitt

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

— Panda Bear

“...and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.”

— Gustave Flaubert

When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?'…

— Lauren Conrad

Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for…

— Ed Askew

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

— Mos Def

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

— Johnny Weir