Imagery Quotes

151 Imagery quotes by 130 unique authors

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations. — Ashwin Sanghi
The second thing I wrote down that day was that exclusive male imagery of the Divine not only instilled an imbalance within human consciousness, it… — Sue Monk Kidd
Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's… — Terry McMillan
I’ll abide by my word, but you will never win me back! Believe me, in two weeks I will slice open your throat, drink from… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You’d better. Otherwise Stryker and I will feast on your innards, bathe in your blood and I will use your eyes as earrings. (Zephyra) You… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film,… — Brennan Manning
How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery? — Novala Takemoto
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that… — Diane Duane
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So… — Naomi Wolf
She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and… — Isaac Marion
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in… — Gregory Maguire
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag… — Peggy Noonan
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery. — Richard Phillips
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that… — Robert Lanza
I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into… — Dana Schutz
As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think… — Naomi Wolf
I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have a budget that is low… — Neill Blomkamp
We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other… — John Lasseter
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla… — Alison Jackson
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great… — Howard Shore
What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it. — Bella Freud
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without… — Clifford Ross

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