Imagery Quotes

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. (John Lennon)
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. View quote
Penn Jillette
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. View quote
Rachel Kushner
I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me. View quote
Margaret Mahy
I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around. View quote
Ann Beattie
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. View quote
Alain de Botton
The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images. View quote
Oskar Kokoschka
To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively. View quote
E. O. Wilson
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes. View quote
Glenn Gould
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a body of recurring imagery that "freezes" into a single metaphor cluster, the metaphors all being identified with the body of the Messiah, the man who is all men, the totality logoi who is one Logos, the grain of sand that is the world. (Northrop Frye)
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does. View quote
Franz Kline
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms, well then think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affects us more or less intensely. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books. View quote
Lloyd deMause
The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation.. it is accepted as easily as it was created. View quote
Robert Bridges
The good and eatable fish are separated by the fishers' skill from the bad and poisonous fish, so that the enjoyment of the good should not be spoilt by any of the bad getting into the "vessels" with them. The work of true sobriety is the same; from all pursuits and habits to choose that which is pure and improving, rejecting in every case that which does not seem likely to be useful, and letting it go back into the universal and secular life, called "the sea" (Matthew 13:47-48), in the imagery of the Parable. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story. View quote
Adriana Trigiani
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately. View quote
Edward Weston
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual-and hence social-confidence while undermining that of women. (Naomi Wolf)
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. View quote
George Herbert Mead
In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it. View quote
Neil Jordan
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation. View quote
Arne Glimcher
Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male? View quote
Carol P. Christ