Imagery Quotes · Page 3

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

— Douglas Coop

I like to create provocative imagery. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it goes awry.

— Melina Matsoukas

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

— David Salle

I like both antireligious and traditional Catholic imagery.

— Andy Biersack

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

— Maxwell Maltz

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

— Henry Cavill

“The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.”

— C.S. Forester

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

— Kay WalkingStick

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

— Mos Def

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

— Ed Askew

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

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

— George Carlin

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

— Liane Moriarty

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

— Raheem DeVaughn

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s,…

— Sarah Parcak

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book…

— Joshua Foer

I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves.…

— Allegra Goodman

You'd better. Otherwise Stryker and I will feast on your innards, bathe in your blood and I will use your eyes as…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts…

— Gerard Way

I hardly follow the Finnish metal scene at all at the moment. I'm more interested in traditional '80s heavy metal, and I'm…

— Jussi Lehtisalo

The reason I introduced sex - or erotic imagery - to Purple is not only because I don't want sex to be…

— Olivier Zahm

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the…

— Oliver Sacks

“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

“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

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

— Josee Chouinard

“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

Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in…

— Jeremiah Seed

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

I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These…

— Joseph Campbell

The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming…

— Otep Shamaya

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

— Anonymous

“their heart grew cold they let their wings down”

— Sappho

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

— Marina Warner

“It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.”

— Lawrence Thornton

Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.

— Garry Trudeau

There's so much great imagery in sign language.

— Paul Raci

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

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“She was a thin, sickly, bony child, like an eft, with fine hair like sunlit smoke.”

— A.S. Byatt