Image Quotes
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The idea of coup plotters sharing their plan to oust an incumbent president with a reporter is ludicrous. Nevertheless, such unfounded reports give the Philippines a negative image before the international community.
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I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.
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In the face of every image we have to choose whether, or how, to make it participate in our knowledge and action. We can accept or reject this or that image; take it as a consoling object or as a worrying object; make it ask questions or use it as a ready-made response.
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.
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As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.
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In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisable, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.
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Body image has nothing to do with scale numbers, it's how you feel inside.
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I don't take my image seriously. I make fun of the fact that some people think I'm a romantic figure.
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A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.
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Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its origin; we know not its end. And the presumption, if not the degradation, rests with those who place upon the throne of the universe a magnified image of themselves, and make its doings a mere colossal imitation of their own. Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.
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Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
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Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.
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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
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A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.
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Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
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My mirror image always had to be interpreted. And for that I sought my reflection in someone else's eyes.
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I could Google image search 'the sky' and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But I can't Google, you know, 'What does my friend look like today?' For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.
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I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.
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I do think image is important in a band, because when I go see a show, I want to see a show; I don't want to just listen to the music.
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I'm the original hunter-down-of-fabulous-things. Twenty years ago I sat down and decided that I would create a really wonderful image, an unforgettable image. And now I'm kind of stuck with it. It's like when I don't wear my fringy, gypsy stuff, people kind of look at me like, 'What's wrong?
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Going to a new team is like going to a new high school. Nobody knows you. It's a chance to rebuild your image.
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I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?
