#images

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#itself #loves #meaning #meaning of #mind

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#deal #destiny #even #images #moods

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#area #come #curious #else #essay

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#appealed #buy #disparate #each #enough

Beauty is so rare a th— Sing a new song Real Music A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A Visiting card — from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958] ↗

— Jack Spicer

#images #leap #poetry #beauty

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#begins #calculated #delayed #desired #desiring

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist. ↗

— Marc Almond

#apart #being #cliches #go #images

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

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