Images Quotes

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

Tarots tell different sides of the various personalities that exist in all of us. I find it fascinating how they combine names, images, and numbers. You don't need to be able to read them, or know their real meaning, to be charmed.

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

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

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

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

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

I like creating images.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

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

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.