Image Quotes

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

The Academy is paranoid about its image.

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I think that through the years I've worked really hard at trying to create an image that is true to me.

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

We would get 20 different angles and then cut them all together. That's what I called it at the time - the 'cubistic' treatment of shooting football. It was the same thing Picasso did except we did it with a football play. It's taking a single image and looking at it from multiple perspectives.

To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.