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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. -- Jerzy Kosinski
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. -- E. L. Doctorow
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke. -- Conrad Hall
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. -- Marian Wright Edelman
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! -- James Connolly
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. -- Arthur C. Clarke
When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later. -- Donald Rumsfeld
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. -- Rene Magritte
Evoke Truth, liberate Light.Evoke Light, liberate Truth. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on. -- David Richo
The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves. -- Edmund Gibson
Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi. -- Charles Rosen
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. -- Rene Magritte
I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters. -- William Shatner
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. -- April Greiman
Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations. -- Daniel Kahneman
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time. -- George William Russell
I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts. -- Shakira
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations. -- Ashwin Sanghi
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality. -- Morris Graves
Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made. -- Blake Lively
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The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. -- Ken Kesey
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. -- Giacomo Casanova
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives. -- Chris Jordan
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. -- Giacomo Casanova
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change. -- Paul Hawken
A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with. -- January Jones
What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash. -- Lauren Myracle
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach. -- Ivan Pavlov
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good. -- Margaret Atwood
When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction. -- Don Bluth
Elixir' means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets. -- Shakira
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them. -- George Ayittey
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art. -- Leo Tolstoy
It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude. -- Jim Rohn
What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our task at this critical moment is to awaken the energies needed to create the new world and to evoke a universal communion of all parts of life. -- Thomas Berry
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. -- Azar Nafisi
I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music. -- M.I.A.
The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness, they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So, too, is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love evoke powerful force of divinity in every man. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization. -- Fernand Braudel
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. -- Barbara Tuchman
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. -- Pablo Picasso
Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us. -- Spencer Rascoff
The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie. -- Brad Furman
Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. -- Matt Reeves
There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke. -- William Ralph Inge
All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. -- Charles Dickens
How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations~? -- Jane Swan
I really put a lot of and emotion into my project in order to evoke emotion. -- Drake
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us -- Dean Koontz
Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy. -- Judith M Bardwick
My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable. -- Rene Magritte
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon. -- William Faulkner
I think as an artist you evoke feeling and change and through that you send a message. -- Kristanna Loken
We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us. -- Eric Hoffer
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life. -- Bram Stoker
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them. -- Irene Nemirovsky
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Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'. -- John William Strutt
How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape? -- Deborah Tall
We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then. -- Cliff Chiang
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy. -- Laura Mvula
Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love. -- David Deida
I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her meatloaf. -- Diane Sawyer
I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it. -- Juno Temple
I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent. -- Edward Abbey
My music should evoke a feeling; whether it's a feeling in your stomach, goosebumps, whatever. When you don't get a feeling then there's a problem. -- Rahki
I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey. -- Madonna Ciccone
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. -- Amy Tan
I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me. -- Melanie Martinez
They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom. -- George W. Bush
Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit. -- John Maynard Keynes
The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead. -- Jean Lorrain
The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us. -- Walter Brueggemann
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition. -- Jean Houston
It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him. -- Cynthia Nixon
The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes. -- Madame de Stael
It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him. -- Dan Stevens
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality. -- Morris Graves
Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it? -- Dee Hock
I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch. -- John Lloyd Young
Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers. -- Marlene Caroselli
I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity. -- Arnulf Rainer
If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity. -- Deepak Chopra
I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that. -- Jose Andres Puerta
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail. -- Michael Kenna
One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture. -- Sarah Hall
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves. -- Joseph Campbell
Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light. -- Laozi
For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war. -- James Nachtwey
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving. -- Paul Simon
A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories. -- Bentley Little
There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively. -- Desmond Tutu
We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff. -- Robert Genn
It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita -- Laura Esquivel
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader. -- Garry Disher
I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories. -- Ted Naifeh
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art. -- John F. Carlson
It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted any particular life style to sell other products. -- Naomi Klein
Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord. -- Jennifer Hudson
What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you. -- Pat Pattison
You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions. -- Mike Svob
Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower. -- Joseph Campbell
We energetically attract what we haven't worked out in ourselves. When vampires evoke intensely judgmental reactions from us, it could be they are mirroring aspects of our personalities we don't like or completely understand. -- Judith Orloff
If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever. -- Eric Alterman
Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally. -- Azar Nafisi
People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price. -- Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg

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