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«A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts.»
Author: Donna A. Favors | About: Colors, Movies, Thought | Keywords: colors, images, proclaims
«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.»
«Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.»
«In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: images, rhythms, rhythm and
«Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies? utopian images? can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.»
«Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.»
«And, when the streamWhich overflowed the soul was passed away,A consciousness remained that it had left,Deposited upon the silent shoreOf memory, images and precious thoughtsThat shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.»
«A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images»
«A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.»
«I offer images- I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached- like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything- not just wealth. All the bullshit that he's been taught- all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.»