#image

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#christ #creating #fell #god #him

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me. ↗

— Barbara Steele

#decided #holding #i #image #implying

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#image #love #lust #sensation

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#culture #images #media #whoever

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image. ↗

— Brian Cox

#elephant #get #i #i always #image

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#far #follow #how #image #matter

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#abstract art #art #been #concrete #exact

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#fashion #i #image #men #myself

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. ↗

— Jim Dine

#attitude #best #clearly #drawing #i