Image Quotes

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco



Everything passes. Only robust art is eternal. The bust outlives the city. And the simple coin Unearthed by a peasant Reveals the image of an emperor.
Pierre Jules Thophile Gautier



I've always said that the actor is only an element of the image, rarely the most important. The actor is important with his dialogue, with the landscape, with a gesture but the actor in himself is nothing.
Michelangelo Antonioni



La principale difficult pour vulgariser la physique quantique, c'est qu'on ne sait pas trs bien comment en fabriquer des images dans notre monde. C'est en ce sens qu'elle est vraiment contre-intuitive.
Alain Aspect



The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
Wystan Hugh Auden



There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
Jean Baudrillard



I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.
Beck Hansen



Like all artists, Love has a multiplicity of fathers, including those fathers who nip in for a night and are never heard from again, leaving a half-remembered image with no name to put to it.
Donald Barthelme



History breaks down in images not into stories.
Walter Bendix Schnflies Benjamin



I'm living up to my extortion image, I be stalking lennox, catching more bodies than abortion clinics.
Lamont Coleman



The Apology tells us that the political problem for the philosopher is the gods. It makes clear that the images on the wall of the cave about which men will not brook contradiction represent the gods.
Allan David Bloom



The image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.
Jorge Luis Borges



Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.
Ray Douglas Bradbury



Cut word lines Cut music lines Smash the control images Smash the control machine Burn the books Kill the priests Kill! Kill! Kill!
William Seward Burroughs



All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed.
Samuel Butler