A Quote by Irvine Welsh

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

Irvine Welsh

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Actually Furniture Hard Iconography Imagery Transgression Very Without

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Irvine Welsh
Scottish - Novelist
Born: September 27, 1961

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

Boyd K. Packer

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

Madonna Ciccone

I actually have a hard time finding furniture I like.

Christina Anstead

There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.

Irvine Welsh

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

Henry David Thoreau

The music video director really wanted to incorporate the imagery of guns into 'Nega Dola' because the lyrics are very aggressive. It kind of portrayed a very strong image. So that's how we connected weapons and the imagery of a dangerous atmosphere.

BoA

Imagery is powerful. Imagery is provocative - satellite imagery much more so because it is from space, and it allows us to get this perspective that we don't have to have otherwise.

Sarah Parcak

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.

Adriana Trigiani

I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.

Justine Kurland

The role that blood plays in Christian iconography is huge - the washing of the blood, the shedding of blood, the blood of the cross, the crucifixion, the violence of that imagery. These are horrific, and yet they are at the center of the Christian faith. There is a place where beauty and terror merge, and it's at the cross.

Scott Derrickson

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

Anton Chekhov

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Jane Austen

Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.

Stephen Jay Gould

I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.

Cecily Brown

Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place