Images Quotes

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was… — Saint Augustine
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking… — Ansel Adams
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies.… — J. G. Ballard
I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. — Lynda Barry
My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God… — Rob Bell
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and… — Bjork
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not… — David Bohm
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as… — Niels Bohr
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We… — Daniel J. Boorstin
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we… — Daniel J. Boorstin
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to… — Alain de Botton
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images… — Anthony Bourdain
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. — Robert Bresson
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. — William S. Burroughs
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we… — William S. Burroughs
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't… — William S. Burroughs
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. — Samuel Alexander

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