Activity Quote by Gaston Bachelard

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

— Djuna Barnes

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel…

— Robert Frank

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

— Trevor Paglen

I think that's the nature of representation. No matter what it will disappoint, it will fail in some way.But that's also part of the…

— Gregory Crewdson

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

— George Eliot

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that…

— William H. Hunt

“Imagination demands an image.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“When a man invents an image that he wants to propagate, that he may even want to substitute for himself, he starts by experimenting,…

— Jean Genet

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

— Shana Alexander

The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the…

— John Crowe Ransom

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

— Gaston Bachelard

To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we make are…

— John Blakemore