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Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images,
The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.
In the beginning was the image.
A picture is like a prayer.
I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.
Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.
I am not an image. I am a human being.
Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.
An image is better than one thousand words
A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.
Through pictures, we can imagine and visualize the reflection of the beauties which our eyes can't see.
All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.
as Aristotle said, "The soul never thinks without a picture.
Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.
A picture may say a thousand words, but a word can say what only a word can say.
Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination.
I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.
Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one ought to try, however incompetent one may feel before the unspeakable perfection and radiant splendour of nature.
There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick.
Photographs are not only points of reference ... they're often triggers of ideas.
Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.
I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.
There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.
Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.
Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.
Do not make images. Everything is. Mirkka Rekola
Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.
Images are life's most cherished moments quoted with wings.
As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.
It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.
A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Significant images render insights beyond speech, beyond the kinds of meaning speech defines. And if they do not speak to you, that is because you are not ready for them, and words will only serve to make you think you have understood, thus cutting you off altogether.
Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.
Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire
A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story
To me, pictures are about memory.
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances ... a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.
The best pictures are yet to be made.
In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.
I don't have an image. Don't give me one. I want no image to have to uphold.
Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that is larger than us, larger than the things we can point to, remember and claim, escorts us from dark into light ...
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.
I worry about images. Images are what things mean.
We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.
My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.
The images of things are not the things in themselves.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.
You should never think without an image.Image-- Aristotle.
I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.
I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow ...
All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.
A picture is a model of reality.
Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.
Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.
And there in the snow lay the pictures, like jewels bedded in white silk. They were paper-thin sheets of colored transparent isin glass of every size and shape, some round, some square, some damaged, some intact, some as large as church windows, others as small as snuffbox miniatures.
Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.
Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.
In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.
The picture should be fecund. It must bring a world to birth.
Image is a very forgiving word, even a promiscuous one
The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.
I know there are thousands of images of me.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.
I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.
Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.
I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.
A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.