Top 100 Quotes About Image
#1. But knowing what I don't want to do doesn't help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image.
Haruki Murakami
#2. Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.
Mark Victor Hansen
#3. Though the 'Thou' is not an 'It', it is also not "another 'I'". He who treats a person as "another 'I'" does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such a relation, despite the warmest "personal" feeling is really 'I'-'It'.
Mauric Friedman
#4. I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.
Francesca Annis
#5. If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to bring out into its full splendor that Divine Image which is latent, on one side, in the complexity of his own nature.
William Batchelder Greene
#6. Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
Susan Sontag
#8. Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, [making a feature] was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.
Nicolas Provost
#9. The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.
Jon Landau
#10. I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.
Richard Phillips
#11. If you long for the face of the Beloved,
Wash your heart from every face, image, and all.
Moulana Shah Maghsoud
#12. There are people who want to know about everything in the minutest detail, like accountants or lawyers. But show a toe sticking out of a hole in a sock to a poet and it is enough to produce an image of the whole world in him.
Tarkovsky
#13. We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
John Eldredge
#14. Hope is that inner image you hold on to, the image generated by God's promises. When hope is lost, your faith no longer has a mission to accomplish. God's Word contains your reason to hope!
Evangeline Colbert
#15. The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.
Walter Kaufmann
#16. People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
Lenny Kravitz
#17. The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.
Pope Francis
#18. She pulled the phone back to look at her photo, then, drawn by its ruthless intensity, kissed the image. Her lips left semen smears on the screen. Commodity fetishism at its finest.
David Cronenberg
#19. If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God ...
H.L. Mencken
#21. The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred.
Marcus Borg
#22. I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.
Jane Smiley
#23. The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
K'naan
#24. Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.
James L. Buckley
#25. When you don't hold your pipe with the proper poise, smoking is very hazardous for your image.
Bauvard
#26. The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Walter Benjamin
#27. An active civil position makes a Christian strong as the image of God
Sunday Adelaja
#28. The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo
#29. at Pixar, Steve couldn't shape the culture. He wasn't the founder, and even as owner, he could not change the company to reflect his image and sensibilities. It already had a culture. It already had a leader. Its cohesive and collaborative team knew exactly what it wanted to do.
Brent Schlender
#30. That is marriage, he thought, remaking yourself in someone else's image. And who knew where the truth of it began or would end?
Ashley Hay
#31. The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation ... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.
Satpal Maharaj
#32. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a very unfortunate situation for the batting team. On the other side of the image, although being definitely unfortunatable for the batting team, it is most definitely a glorious silver lining for the bowling team.
Ian B.G. Burns
#33. Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.
Michael Bell
#34. Trav knew the real boy underneath, and he was three times as beautiful as the image.
Amy Lane
#35. Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.
Ron Perlman
#36. The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
Karl Kraus
#37. Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.
Ann Richards
#38. We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern,
but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.
Michael Hogan
#39. Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
Henry Ward Beecher
#40. I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.
Oskar Kokoschka
#41. The image of her in another man's arms was stuck in my mind, as real as life. As if there was a demon with nowhere else to go clinging to a corner of the ceiling, eyes fastened on me.
Haruki Murakami
#42. If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button
Ruth Bernhard
#43. If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
Madame De Stael
#44. Dance is an image. As painting is a song. Simulacra simulate. A rite repeats a metaphora (a voyage). Moving trucks in modern-day Greece still have the word METAPHORA on their sides. A myth is the danced image of the rite itself, which is expected to attract the world.
Pascal Quignard
#46. You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.
Anton Corbijn
#47. We take our reflections for granted all our lives, until the hour comes when our eyes search for the familiar features and find instead the image of a stranger.
George R R Martin
#49. When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
Henri Bergson
#50. One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.
John Gielgud
#51. My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was
William Shakespeare
#52. Make good choices in order to manifest your true identity; manifest your true being. What others see in you now is just a mild photo of you. The wild copy is yet to come. Print that image; make it bigger!
Israelmore Ayivor
#53. Prugo gazes at his image onscreen, cocking his head this was and that, making "sexy" faces, checking himself out. Inspired, he gets up and lifts up his shirt, showing off his bare midriff. Then he turns around and does a booty dance for the camera.
Nancy Jo Sales
#54. In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated.
Andy Grundberg
#55. Dostoevsky's hero is not an objectified image but an autonomous discourse, pure voice; we do not see him, we hear him;
Mikhail Bakhtin
#56. If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
Orson Welles
#57. For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives, reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in uncharted space. Then it's gone, the view swallowed by the hyperspace winds streaming past, blue-green auroras wiping the after-images away.
Until all that's left is us
Amie Kaufman
#58. Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are "universally accepted."
Manning Marable
#59. The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#60. Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.
Nicolas Maduro
#61. If you develop an image of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace, and happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you.
Joel Osteen
#62. They made it so that we can't change it from within. They made it so we must kill to break it. If we be monsters, we're monsters made in their image.
Brent Weeks
#63. But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
Pete Townshend
#64. The mainstream media perpetuates the notion that women should focus entirely on a static image of a perfect body as the end goal. There are no messages about the process, the active body, how it makes us feel in that moment.
Anna Kessel
#65. Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.
Murray Rothbard
#66. It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.
George A Tice
#67. Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.
Philip Pullman
#68. In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.
Robert Wagner
#69. Successful leaders are bigger than any individual outcome; their sense of self-worth doesn't depend on its having to work. Their whole self-image is not at stake. They are separate from the deal.
Henry Cloud
#70. You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.
Bruce Wilkinson
#71. The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.
Taylor Hanson
#72. 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.
John Sexton
#73. People aren't photographing for history any more. It's for immediate gratification. If you're photographing to share an image, you're not photographing to keep it.
Larry Towell
#74. The Joker as sadistic chaos, the Batman as merciless order. This mirror-image theme would come to define the two characters' relationship in the comics and across all media for the next forty years.
Glen Weldon
#75. I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image.
Thomas Jefferson
#76. For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
George Whitefield
#77. Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.
Miranda Lambert
#78. Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
Maiara Walsh
#79. You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.
Colum McCann
#80. In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.
Richard Bausch
#81. It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
Italo Calvino
#82. In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens, always listening to the music that's being created, just like the world around us, never predictable, always shifting and intertwining, reflecting and echoing itself.
Pattiann Rogers
#83. I've never been able to control my public image.
Erica Jong
#84. This is classic denial: no one wants to hold a mental image of themselves as bad or evil, so immoral acts are necessarily dressed up in a cloak of intellectual self-justification.
Mark Lynas
#85. I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
Ellie Goulding
#86. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#87. Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.
Paulo Coelho
#88. Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
David Ogilvy
#89. Ctrl + 1" (hold down the Ctrl key and press the number 1). This will zoom the image to 100% magnification and pressing "Ctrl + 0" zooms out to fit the image to the screen.
Robin Whalley
#90. It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.
Steve Jurvetson
#91. Your childhood dream delights God. I don't say that because every secret dream will come true. But having a dream is evidence of a person who is fully alive. Having a dream is a reflection of the image of God.
Emily P. Freeman
#92. With respect to human nature, we believe that the idea of God's image implies relationship and not any characteristic that would have left a mark in the paleoanthropological record.
Malcolm Jeeves
#93. The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.
Noam Chomsky
#94. You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears - enormous and overwhelming. If the movie is a good one, you allow yourself to be absorbed in its fantasy, and its dreams become part of your memories
Roger Ebert
#95. People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that's an image I really didn't need.
Billy Connolly
#96. I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.
John D'Agata
#97. Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#98. It was difficult to image quite where this gentleman [a statue] could have come from: he was a little too cheerful for a saint in a church and not quite comical enough for a coffee-house sign.
Susanna Clarke
#99. You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.
Rick Warren
#100. I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.
Ice Cube
