Imagery Quote by Daniel B. Shapiro

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it:…

— Patricia A. McKillip

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

— Anonymous

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same…

— Paul Klee

“Plots are interesting, characters are fascinating, scenery can be totally enveloping,” Morrison says, “but the real art is the deep structure, the way that…

— John Freeman

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination…

— Tennessee Williams

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

— Jean Baudrillard

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the…

— Gerhard Richter

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their…

— Yann Martel

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words…

— Ken Danby

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

— Roy H. Williams