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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.


Laurie Anderson


#images #job #leave #make #other

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

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.


Lloyd C. Douglas


#damages #fear #ghost #harbors #him

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.


Niels Bohr


#comes #concerned #creating #describing #facts

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?


Desiderius Erasmus


#cave #content #difference #emerged #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


#combination #come #deposited #gathered #images

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.


Galen Rowell


#care #fates #i #i care #images

Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.


Naomi Wolf


#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.


Naomi Wolf


#beauty #images #marketing #media #scoiety

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






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