Image Quotes

The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.

it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.

Of course it’s very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means – one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration – is difficult.

I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.

Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.