Imagery Quotes

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.

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.

As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.

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.

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?

The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

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.

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

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.

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.

In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false.

Imagery is like music.

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

I'm not a fan of 3D. But I am a huge fan of digital imagery. Because it allows a filmmaker much more latitude to appreciate their own visions and dreams.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold.

We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses streaked past us in a torrent without shape.

The graceful wings of a dove lead to the endless imagination in a dream wings of pain.

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

]sing to usthe one with violets in her lap]mostly]goes astray

You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams.

dragonflies circled me, the sun knifing off the brilliant blues and yellows of their bodies.

she is born in the breath of a cloud

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book.

Watch, how the sunslowly risesfrom behind my earnew lines, new countriesspring up in my palmsmy rough hairbecome swaying silkand all the leavesin my bodybecome lusher than fruits.

Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.

...and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.

Night simply drapes itself over the dayAs if someone had lowered a curtain.The sky glitters and moves, Filled with shooting stars and fireflies.

Like a dried up spring, magic trickled forth with less and less strength, until one day, the people awoke and there was simply no more to be had.