Images Quotes

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

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.

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers.

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.