Equal Quote by Samuel Johnson

Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.

— Rae Armantrout

Some images stick with you forever, images that you can't unsee.

— Abby Johnson

“Instead of seeing imperfections as thorns in my decorating flesh, I want to open my eyes and see them as signs of life.”

— Myquillyn Smith

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

— Brassai

“When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it,…

— Francis Stevens

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

— Anonymous

“Perhaps he found beauty saddening – I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he…

— Dodie Smith

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sometimes, we must get hurt in order to grow. We must feel in order to know that sometimes, our visions clear only after our…

— Laine

Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of pornography for…

— Orlan

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

— Aristotle

The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the cold perfect…

— John O'Donohue