#images

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. ↗

— George H. Mead

#imagery #images #mental #mental processes #order

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#back #bombarded #chairs #forward #got

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. ↗

— James Merrill

#could #fascinating #fit #hope #i

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#images #like #people #poetry #some

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. ↗

— Alva Noto

#alone #closer #disturbing #express #expressed

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then? ↗

— Bill Nye

#earth #fiction #images #like #mars

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. ↗

— Serge Daney

#age #chances #emotions #encounter #images

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#i #images #knew #me #movie

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. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#cause #century #changing #conform #evil

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#also #audience #especially #harder #here