Images Quotes

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

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.

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.

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated.

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.

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