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Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. -- George H. Mead
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. -- George H. Mead
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
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. -- Christopher Nolan
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. -- Marshall McLuhan
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy? -- Will Smith
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. -- Mos Def
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. -- Edward Weston
Imagery is like music. -- Steven Bochco
Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work. -- Shelby Lynne
The Academy for Guided Imagery has created and finely honed an exquisite training program. Years of development and feedback has resulted in a creative program with great integrity and clinical relevance. -- Jeanne Achterberg
Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars. -- Mari Evans
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls. -- Elie Wiesel
Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Words are tools of imagery in motion, -- Sam Shepard
I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts. -- Shakira
I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices. -- Adam Lambert
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. -- Daniel Craig
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. -- John Lasseter
The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography. -- Christopher Nolan
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. -- Peggy Noonan
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. -- Ann Beattie
If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? -- Carol P. Christ
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When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think. -- Daniel Tammet
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition. -- Gregory Maguire
Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology. -- Sarah Parcak
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word. -- Jill Scott
What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. -- Jurgen Habermas
Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it. -- Eli Roth
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination. -- Joshua Foer
Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why. -- Paul Newman
The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize. -- David Perkins
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. -- Michael Parenti
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. -- Camille Paglia
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. -- Alan Huffman
There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery. -- Florence Welch
The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining. -- Sarah Parcak
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination. -- Oliver Sacks
My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us. -- Steven Spielberg
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious. -- Caroline Knapp
Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. -- Jon Meacham
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
I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists, we believe we can will action through language. If that's the case, we have to take responsibility for what we say. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. -- Maya Angelou
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. -- William James
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These energies are the source, then, of mythological imagery; in a mythological organization of symbols, the conflicts between the different organic impulses within the body are resolved and harmonized. You might say mythology is a formula for the harmonization of the energies of life. -- Joseph Campbell
No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved. -- Yvonne Rainer
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery. -- Joseph Campbell
I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great. -- Ray Davies
Poetry is fact given over to imagery. -- Rod McKuen
I like visual imagery in my head. -- Stephen Malkmus
Depression is an imagery of our heart's sickness. -- Rizky Adam Rifai
How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery? -- Novala Takemoto
There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery. -- Stefan Kanfer
My focus was always toward imagery of some sort. -- David Salle
The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. -- Marina Warner
Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ. -- Garry Trudeau
Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery. -- Anne Sexton
Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves. -- Maxwell Maltz
I think there's more room for different representations of women within fashion imagery. -- Alexa Chung
I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery. -- Brian Ferneyhough
Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery. -- Alfredo Jaar
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. -- Terry Brooks
To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively. -- E. O. Wilson
The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery. -- Rachael Price
Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas. -- Tracy K. Smith
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning. -- Kay WalkingStick
Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset. -- Cub Koda
I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic. -- Johnny Weir
I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more. -- Henry Cavill
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too. -- Madonna Ciccone
You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at. -- Robert Gober
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems. -- Cate Marvin
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. -- John Lydon
Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. -- David Whyte
I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that. -- Panda Bear
When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations. -- Ashwin Sanghi
There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas. -- Ali Shaheed Muhammad
I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words. -- Katherine McCoy
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich. -- Tom Hooper
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. -- Nick Denton
A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared -- Jack Ramsay
Use photos and videos often. The best startups post lots of imagery and videos. The worst ones? Text only. -- Robert Scoble
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery. -- Edward Ruscha
Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us? -- Feist
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created. -- Robert Bridges
Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us. -- Jon Oringer
The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you. -- Wayne Dyer
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. -- Matt Mullenweg
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. -- Alan Watts
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. -- Antonin Artaud
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography. -- Terry Richardson
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. -- Alain de Botton
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. -- Rachel Kushner
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing. -- Les Claypool
I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text. -- Glenn Branca
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both. -- Ed Askew
Besides offering desirable products, the Free People brand continue to produce some of the most compelling imagery and customer engagement in the industry. -- Richard Hayne
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability. -- Will Cotton
I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh -- Kanye West
The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images. -- Oskar Kokoschka
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. -- Franz Kline
That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery. -- Hilda Doolittle
We have grown up in an age where there is nothing that cannot now, courtesy of computer-generated imagery, be convincingly rendered in the visual field. -- Glen Duncan
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. -- Glenn Gould
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories. -- Daniel B. Shapiro
I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work. -- Kerry James Marshall
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs. -- Plutarch
I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works. -- Danny Fox
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. -- Lewis H. Lapham
The relentless onslaught of this stupefying imagery that pounds our inner landscapes flat, a carpet-bombing of the mind. The language of the world, that overwhelms us. -- Alan Moore
The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac, too. -- Simon Schama
I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play. -- Dana Schutz
I'm not a planner. I should be more articulate about what the imagery means, but I don't have a good reason for it; it's just there. -- Joe Bradley
When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps. -- Lauren Conrad
Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word. -- Michael Bell
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? -- Carol P. Christ
I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery. -- John Gruber

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