Imagery Quotes · Page 5

I know 'Napalm' seems like a military-themed album, but what it is, is just the backdrop and the imagery that we used.

— Xzibit

Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic.

— Mehdi Hasan

The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of…

— Simon Schama

“A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own…

— James Allen

“Startled pigeons filled the old, shadowy rooms and crumbling hallways with their soft thunder.”

— Stephen King

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that.…

— Rod Stewart

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me…

— John Lennon

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little…

— Shelby Lynne

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity.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

— Alison Jackson

Language and poetry are endlessly fascinating. The most brilliant work can be so sparse yet so full of meaning. That's what I'm…

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in…

— Penn Jillette

“They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman's beard, and…

— Ingri D'Aulaire

“No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so…

— George R.R. Martin

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through…

— Gregory Maguire

Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I…

— Sarah Parcak

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex.…

— Marilyn Manson

“It was toffee; they were advertising toffee, a nursemaid told Rezia. Together they spell t...o...f... "K...R..." said the nursemaid, and Septimus heard…

— Virginia Woolf

“I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"-all…

— Ralph Ellison

After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate…

— Bakari Kitwana

“The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The…

— Michael Chabon

No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star…

— Yvonne Rainer

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

— Sappho

The mobility of the eye is such a fundamental treasure that we have, and that coexists with sensation. On the dance floor,…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of…

— Kathryn Stripling Byer

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

— Les Claypool

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

— Robert Gober

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

— Brian Ferneyhough

It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind - not just direct imagery exercises - may help combat…

— Maria Konnikova

“The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.”

— Dean Koontz

“She comes when classes are to start, She gathers up last midnight’s clutter – burnt cigarettes, a rusted pen nib”

— Vladimir Nabokov

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

— Irvine Welsh

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way…

— Jeff Tweedy

“The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down,…

— Mary Stewart

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

— Shakira

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

— Madonna Ciccone

“All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I…

— Raymond Pettibon

I think multimodal kinds of models are pretty interesting - like can you combine text with imagery or audio or video in…

— Jeff Dean

The biggest challenge of any cinematographer is making the imagery fit together of a piece: that the whole film has a unity…

— Roger Deakins

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

— Robert Bridges