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Good photographs are taken not with the camera. Good photographs are taken with Mind, Soul, Eyes, and Imagination where Eyes like a shutter, Mind like a lens, Imagination like an object and Soul like a canvas.


Parveen Sharma


#photo #photography #pictures #imagination

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.


William Laud


#church #churches #down #heads #held

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

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.


Naomi Wolf


#body-image #culture #eating-disorders #images #society

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.


Susan Sontag


#apathy #compassion #images #communication

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


#images #imagination #senses #writing #imagination

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


Samuel Alexander


#expectations #experience #founded #images #memories

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

I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.


Frank Black


#bag #bands #because #been #certainly