#mage

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? ↗

— Hugo Ball

#images #language #long #paradise #real

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#actions #base #based #images #most

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#image #makes #mind #stop #uncertainties

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#body #body image #brain #clothes #comfortable

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#behind #curiosity #determination #each #get

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#allow #america #black #career #celluloid

I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image. ↗

— Alan Bates

#affects #always #because #career #commercial

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#dropped #image #needs #still #you

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

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however