(573 quotes found)
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
C. Wright Mills
“I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.”
Gloria Grahame
“O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!”
William Shakespeare
“The photographic image... is a message without a code.”
Roland Barthes
“Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.”
Evander Holyfield
“Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Honesty is the best image.”
Ziggy
“Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing”
Joshua Reynolds
“All that is transitory is only an image.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.”
Nicolas Cage
