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The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting tog...

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Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.

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Orhan PamukThe Innocence of Objects

Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...

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I got an image in my head that never got out. We see a great many things and can remember a great ma...

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To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which doe...

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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...

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Susan SontagRegarding the Pain of Others

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulu...

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Umberto EcoThe Screen Education Reader: Cinema

For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable.

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Vilem FlusserTowards a Philosophy of Photography

By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a ...

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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious...

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One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the...

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My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, huma...

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Carlos FuentesMyself with Others: Selected Essays

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found him...

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The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for ...

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When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invi...

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When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

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Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-...

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Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean ...

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Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow...

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Contemplating a flame perpetuates a primordial reverie. It separates us from the world and enlarges ...

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer car...

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