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Image Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with…
- The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
- Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital…
- The poetic image exists apart from causality.
- If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory…
- Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
- Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but…
- The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study…
- The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
- Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the…
- When the image is new, the world is new.
More Image Quotes
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. — Francis Bacon
- Science is but an image of the truth. — Francis Bacon
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. — Tyra Banks
- China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals. — Brigitte Bardot
- I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless.… — Drew Barrymore
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. — Mortimer Adler