Images Quotes
1175 quotes by 890 authors
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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
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
— Gaston Bachelard
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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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
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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
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I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
— Lynda Barry
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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
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
— Henri Bergson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
— Robert Bresson
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
— William S. Burroughs
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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
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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
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
— Samuel Alexander
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