Imagery Quotes

I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them they serve me.

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.

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. I’m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable.

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

I like visual imagery in my head.

I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves. Words become jewels in poetry, while they are often tools in other genres.

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.

How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.

There's a definite connection in terms of objects at hand - dealing with objects or material at hand. Pop art was very much enamored with popular imagery, and popular imagery was of course available and at hand. And land art was also using what was at hand.

I do have a lot of sexual imagery in my performance. But I don't think it's ever encouraging anyone to have sex. I think I just show my own sexuality, but I don't think I've ever really written about having sex or anything like that.

It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way, by silk-screening or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

Here's the thing: celebrities understand the power of original ideas because often that's why they act. They want to be in movies that tell a story. They know the power of iconic imagery. Often, you find that people really want to participate.