Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly reproduced "beautiful" images? Though unconscious personal...
A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different location oh photographic skill. The opposition is neatly summed up in Bioy Casares’s ...
After consciously enduring a twelve-inch knitting needle navigated into the unseen recesses of my pelvis and almost passing out at the sensation of my hip inflating with fluid and somehow clinging to my sanity through the hour-long, migraine-inducing...
We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.
God created us in His image, and He gave us an imagination with His imprint to create things for His glory!
Val had a horrific image of Lisa peering through a magnifying glass like a grotesquely teenybopper version of Nancy Drew — in jeggings.
...I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head....
...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...
Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
The IMAX cameras are big and heavy. And they're loud. So you have to be mindful of whether or not they're worth it; I'd say the image quality is incredible and the scale is amazing.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image. (The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).
{...} It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image. (The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).
