#image

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#flashes #image #instant #never #only

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #self-esteem #weight

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#i #image #like #lot #misconceptions

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male. ↗

— Bill Bixby

#been #comedy #down #frightening #happened

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies. ↗

— Michael Douglas

#best #concerned #even #far #get

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#horror #i #i remember #image #interesting

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#beautiful #certainly #images #important #influenced

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#image #instrument #more #preservation

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#conservative #get #having #i #image

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#anything #business #dealing #image #lonely