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Images Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
- To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
- 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…
- The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
- The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness…
- Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one…
- 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…
- In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is…
- We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the…
More Images Quotes
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — 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...… — Ansel Adams
- The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its… — 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… — 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… — Bjork
- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr
- As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has… — Daniel J. Boorstin