Imagery Quotes
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Imagery Quotes & Sayings
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Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery ... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
— John Lydon
The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It was as hot as ever, even the turn of the moon bringing no relief, and the cries of cicadas fell like showers around me.
— Lian Hearn
Faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced
— Jean Baudrillard
He found Washington at once august and disgusting.
— John Taliaferro
I'm not a planner. I should be more articulate about what the imagery means, but I don't have a good reason for it; it's just there.
— Joe Bradley
Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
— Armistead Maupin
The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.
— Rachael Price
Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage.
— Rachel Vincent
A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared
— Jack Ramsay
Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.
— Roald Dahl
Never act surprised in a courtroom.
— Stephen L. Carter
Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long.
— Karen Russell
My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.
— David Salle
Min hadn't just played the "friend" card - she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist.
— Brent Hartinger
So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order ...
— Mervyn Peake
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
— John Lennon
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
— Terry Richardson
I like visual imagery in my head.
— Stephen Malkmus
He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.
— David Halberstam
Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm.
— Rebecca Maizel
Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.
— Garry Trudeau
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me ... to carry meaning.
— Kay WalkingStick
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
— Les Claypool
Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.
— H.W. Brands
Cash said in return, "I'm a songwriter. I use my imagination. The important thing is the message of the song, not the imagery.
— Robert Hilburn
Let's stay up all night,' Kat whispers. 'Let's wait for the moon to kiss the morning star.
— Elissa Janine Hoole
It felt as if I'd been teleported to the dark side of the moon, forced to gaze out at the stars and wonder which one I'd come from.
— Heather Heffner
Sometimes you don't have to look deep to cherish beauty.
— Sarvesh Jain
She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.
— Natalia Marx
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
— John Lasseter
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.
— Plutarch
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
— A. Lee Martinez
I walked along the shore in the morning light, the winds have slept in the arms of dawn after crying all night.
— Ipsit Bibhudarshi
The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.
— John Ferling
The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.
— Wayne Dyer
itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling
— Dick Allen
New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.
— Douglas Coop
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.
— John Lasseter
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
— Matt Mullenweg
She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.
— Adi Alsaid
The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.
— Janet Fitch
Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
— Alain De Botton
In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity.
— David Halberstam
I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.
— Shakira
I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.
— Johnny Weir
If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.
— Franz Kline
Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
— Geraldine Brooks
He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
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.
— Lewis H. Lapham
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.
— Chuck Close
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
— Tom Hooper
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.
— Christopher Nolan
Extravagance was a political necessity.
— Dan Jones
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.
— Rod Stewart
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
The awareness of imagery is part of living ... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception ... of images.
— Oskar Kokoschka
When you begin to visualize and hold powerful positive imagery in your mind, it appears almost like magic. This is the power of gratitude.
— Demi Lovato
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
— Daniel Craig
I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh
— Kanye West
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
— Rachel Kushner
He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.
— H.W. Brands
When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.
— Joseph Campbell
I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
— Adam Lambert
As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
His monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes..
— James Joyce
I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.
— Juliet Marillier
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
— Antonin Artaud
Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.
— Cub Koda
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.
— Lauren Conrad
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
He plays with his lip rings, using his tongue to slide them in and out of the holes. Aaaaand that was imagery I so did not need.
— C.M. Stunich
The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky.
— Philip Pullman
A poem is a painting with imagery and words; a painting is a poem of color on a reflecting mirror.
— Debasish Mridha
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
— George Herbert Mead
The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.
— John Green
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
— George Orwell
I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do.
— Don McCullin
The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.
— Haruki Murakami
My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins
— Cynthia Hand
All professions have some element of theater to them.
— David Halberstam