Top 428 Imagery Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
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.
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.
I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it. — © Annie Dillard
I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.
I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.
Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to be mortal.
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our inner voice.
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.
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.
When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.' — © Billy Collins
When I discovered the lyric poem, that advanced not by narrative steps but by blocks and layers of imagery, I said, 'Gee, I probably could do that. So let me try that.'
I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?
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.
In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.
European shows are unafraid of investigating philosophical questions on behalf of their characters or elevating imagery or letting moments play out.
I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.
I'd love to maybe explore editorial, or join a creative team for a brand, looking at imagery and content. Fashion is so vast, there's a million things.
I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
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.
In Dreams...well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.
Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.
David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.
Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?
Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.
There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.
We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.
Growing up, I loved the imagery I saw from America as it celebrated being the land of the free and home of the brave.
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.
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.
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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.
Radiohead showed a real affinity to being bold with visual imagery, so it came as no surprise when Jonny Greenwood did 'There Will Be Blood.'
At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.
So many car commercials are shot in the Salt Flats, and so much great imagery comes out of that place, but I've never been there, and I'm curious. — © Casey Neistat
So many car commercials are shot in the Salt Flats, and so much great imagery comes out of that place, but I've never been there, and I'm curious.
Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us.
I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
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.
My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.
I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.
You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.
A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared
I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. — © Alain de Botton
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.
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.
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
With imagery, as actors know, you can make up anything you want to. You can put yourself in icy water to get rid of this or that.
In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.
I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
I know 'Napalm' seems like a military-themed album, but what it is, is just the backdrop and the imagery that we used.
As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.
I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.
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