Image Quotes

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Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether… — Eugene Ionesco
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. — Ansel Adams
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative… — Ansel Adams
I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own… — Ansel Adams
For me the future of the image is going to be in electronic form ... You will see perfectly beautiful images on an electronic screen.… — Ansel Adams
To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the… — Ansel Adams
I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something… — William Albert Allard
The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. — Betty Friedan
This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of… — Edward Abbey
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or… — Minor White
Thereâ€™s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. Weâ€™re in no… — Isaac Asimov
Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here. — Ray Bradbury
My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep… — Lynn Johnston
The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and… — Carl Jung
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness… — Carl Jung
It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate… — Carl Jung
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through God's grace. The… — Carl Jung
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion

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