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Images contaminate us like viruses. -- Paul Virilio
Images split the truth in fractions. -- Denise Levertov
Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand. -- Erica Jong
Propositions are true or false. Images are not. -- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Images have an advanced religion; they bury history. -- Alfredo Jaar
I worry about images. Images are what things mean. -- E. L. Doctorow
Images are more real than anyone could have supposed. -- Susan Sontag
Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points. -- David Mumford
Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there. -- William Shirley
Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words. -- William Shirley
Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery. -- Anne Sexton
I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images. -- Temple Grandin
Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly. -- Alice McCall
If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet. -- Chloe Sevigny
20th century poetry is a piÃ±ata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it. -- Diane Glancy
Images last for ever, our minds don't - capture what you can before the time runs out. -- Sam Pope
Images, not words, capture feelings in faces; nothing can ruin the atmosphere as easily as too much light. -- Sven Nykvist
Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography. -- Gail Dines
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative. -- Barbara Kruger
Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement. -- Douglas McCulloh
Images are altered in many ways, to many degrees, and for many reasons, so it's important for viewers to be informed of both. -- John Paul Caponigro
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching. -- Susan Sontag
Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image. -- Hilton Als
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg
Some people have compared the Klan images to ecclesiastical figures. -- Andres Serrano
There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? -- Andy Warhol
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. -- Huey Newton
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. -- Albert Bandura
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. -- Ansel Adams
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. -- Salvador Dali
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. -- Annette Funicello
I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person. -- Claire Denis
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. -- George Eliot
My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. -- Andy Warhol
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it. -- Mary Ellen Mark
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. -- Hermann Hesse
Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind. -- James Rosenquist
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. -- Neil Young
Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you. -- Jack Canfield
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. -- Victoria Secunda
When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. None of that happened where I was. You're almost taught to realize it's not for you. -- Trent Reznor
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future. -- J. G. Ballard
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. -- Saint Augustine
Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment. -- Martin Rees
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile. -- Colm Toibin
I like creating images. -- Kate Moss
Concepts are mental images. -- Paul Virilio
The body believes in images. -- Robert Moss
Poetry is good for unleashing images. -- Paula Rego
I love retouching images on Photoshop. -- Troye Sivan
Stars today are just masturbation images. -- Robert Mitchum
God is worshipped only inpictures, images, idols. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Most pornographic images are simply too repulsive. -- Volkmar Sigusch
A word is worth a thousand images. -- Andreas Gursky
Surely the stars are images of love. -- Philip James Bailey
What good are images if people understand them? -- Jon Stewart
Men create the gods after their own images. -- Aristotle
One must confront vague ideas with clear images, -- Jean-Luc Godard
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. -- Paul Auster
Kind words produce their images on men's souls. -- Blaise Pascal
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images. -- Helen Levitt
History breaks down into images, not into stories. -- Walter Benjamin
All you see on television are debased images. -- Prince
Directing music videos is all about capturing images. -- Nia Long
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. -- William S. Burroughs
I'm not big into images. I'm into reality. -- Paul Tagliabue
Do not make gods in your own images. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I wish I hadn't made so many images. -- Andy Warhol
A film is a machine made of images -- Hollis Frampton
Words that do not create images should be discarded. -- Gerry Spence
My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created. -- Dita Von Teese
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. -- Jean Cocteau
I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images. -- Ryan McGinley
There is a great correlation between music and images. -- Graham Nash
Not all lines, not all images, survive their season. -- Andrei Voznesensky
No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
Without images we can neither think nor understand anything. -- Martin Luther
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. -- Salvador Dali
It began in images and it ended in symbolism. -- B. W. Powe
I know there are thousands of images of me. -- Stevie Wonder
For you know only a heap of broken images -- T. S. Eliot
Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
All businesses need images to sell their products and services. -- Jon Oringer
I want to produce images that startle one into recollection. -- John Baldessari
Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is. -- Kurt Loder
Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased. -- Italo Calvino
I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist. -- Steve McQueen
I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist. -- Steve McQueen
The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images. -- Sheila Ballantyne
First you must have the images, then come the words. -- Robert James Waller
I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate. -- Wanda Koop
The images of things are not the things in themselves. -- E. L. Doctorow
I don't think in any language. I think in images. -- Vladimir Nabokov
The way I put together images is a reactive art. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The craft of photography is the key to good images. -- Ansel Adams
There are images I need to complete my own reality. -- Jim Morrison
I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me! -- Berenice Abbott
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. -- Carlos Fuentes
Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated -- Cynthia Leive
Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images. -- Alan Lightman
The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting. -- David Mamet
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. -- Damien Hirst
Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images. -- Italo Calvino
Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people. -- Ava DuVernay
The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow -- Edgar Allan Poe
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments. -- Albert Camus
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. -- Robert Bresson
All art forms employ some means through which images become real. -- Elliot W. Eisner
Give yourself to the images which are, in fact, already there. -- Meinrad Craighead
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. -- Jim Rohn
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. -- Gary Snyder
[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images. -- Gunter Grass
We only dream of images we already have inside of us. -- David Lynch
Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact -- John Henrik Clarke
I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. -- Lynda Barry
Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real. -- Roy H. Williams

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