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Pictures are as evocative to me as smells. -- Anthony Browne
Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues. -- Will Cotton
I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other. -- Aleksa Palladino
I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures. -- Geddy Lee
I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere. -- Kate Bush
Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. -- Robert Adams
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. -- Charles Baudelaire
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation. -- David Whyte
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind. -- Mark Carwardine
Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally evocative. -- Neneh Cherry
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can. -- Saoirse Ronan
If you can even manage to tell exactly what a song is about, all you do is put that song in a box forever, and it loses its evocative power. -- Robert Hunter
I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man. -- Richie Sambora
The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?' -- John Malkovich
The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated. -- Peter Baynham
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history. -- Philip Treacy
I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city. -- Ed Stoppard
Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty. -- Susan Vreeland
Southern gentility is evocative to me. -- Rosanne Cash
Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative. -- Erin Morgenstern
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it. -- Gemma Files
Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones." -- Christopher Moore
I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways. -- Pattiann Rogers
Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie. -- Douglas Brinkley
Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love! -- Christos Gage
The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. -- Thalassa Cruso
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative. -- Andre Dubus
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light. -- Ken Macrorie
I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed. -- William S. Burroughs
ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a talent well worth watching. -- Brandon Massey
I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education. -- John Dykstra
Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity. -- George E. P. Box
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. -- Charles Baudelaire
It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result. -- William S. Burroughs
There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. -- George Orwell
I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener. -- Terry Bozzio
I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time. -- Jon Snow
I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song. -- David First
Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story. -- Sarah Moon
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes, or of one's childhood, or of a storm at sea ... -- M. F. K. Fisher
Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling. -- Tom Brokaw
Gerdanlouk, he thinks. An evocative Turkish word, with Arabic roots. It means jewelry, but only jewelry adorning a woman between her lower neck and the top of her breasts. Gerdanlouk. He looks away. -- Jenny White
The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom. -- Che Guevara
Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice. -- Dan Bejar

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